On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Greg Hosler wrote: > I'm trying to get a USB Philips webcam working with either xawtv, webcam, > and ultimately gnomemeeting. And I'm not having alot of luck. The module returns only the camera native palette - YUV420/YUV420P. > I can also load the philips decompression module (pwcx), which supposedly > gains me access to add'l palettes, sizes, and frame rates. It adds compression, but not palettes. > xawtv Use the latest (at least 3.56 works with my philips 680K) > webcam > > When I run webcam, I get the message: > > can't get rgb24 data > > Well, it turns out that the default palettes available when you > load the module are: yuv420, yuv420p - addl pallets, including > rgb24 are only available once the decompressor is loaded, and > apparently need to be selected via an ioctl. but I cannot locate > a utility that will send this ioctl to the driver. Really ? I did not believe the compressor added palettes. You need to add 420(p) support to webcam. See the ccvt library that Nemosoft have on the philips camera pages at http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/. > gnomemeeting > > gnomemeeting simply refuses to see the video device. No idea what's > going on yet, but I'm suspecting it might be related to the fact that > neither xawtv and/or webcam will work w/ this webcam. If this is based on openh323, then try CVS openh323, and I have some additional mods to openh323 for the philips. > Question: has anyone successfully gotten a philips webcam to work w/ ANY of > the above applications ? Yes. *grin* Mark -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mark Cooke The views expressed above are mine and are not Systems Programmer necessarily representative of university policy University Of Birmingham URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
