On 24-Jul-2001 Mark Cooke wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Greg Hosler wrote:
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>> webcam
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>> When I run webcam, I get the message:
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>> can't get rgb24 data
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>> 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.
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> Really ?
I'm partially guessing, based uponteh following:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/Philips.txt
mentions about palette options when insmodding the module. however, when
trying w/ rgb24, insmod gives an error. grepping palette drivers/usb/pwc*
displays what looks like initial load palette options (yuv420/yuv420p only),
and others (in pwc-ctl (?) which I suspect is the ioctl support for this
driver).
> 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/.
I'll take a look. but, are you saying that I need to modify the source code
(which I can do) ? I was hoping that this might be supported "outta da box"...
>> gnomemeeting
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>> 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.
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> If this is based on openh323, then try CVS openh323, and I have some
> additional mods to openh323 for the philips.
yes, gnomemeeting is based upon openh323. I'll give cvs a try.
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