if not even xawtv is working, then i think chances are slim that any other application will be able to do so. (xawtv being the reference implementation using the v4l-API)

nevertheless a quick google showed me that there do exist some tutorials on how to make the camera work, so i suggest you go through them, and once you are able to grab frames from any application, we go and try to make it work with Gem.

on a related note: it seems that libv4l is going to be included in debian soon (probably once the lenny release is done and package inclusion returns to normal); i hope this will be the solution to the v4l-2 disaster...

I couldnt try out the cam with xawtv because it is crushing when I start it.
I will try it on another Linux machine.

Thanks again for your help. I will go through the tutorials you mentioned.

Best

Daniel

2008/9/1 IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
Daniel La Corte wrote:

I think the card uses video4linux2.
the  v4l1-compat module was already loaded.
xawtv seems not to work on my system.
thanks for your help.


if not even xawtv is working, then i think chances are slim that any other application will be able to do so. (xawtv being the reference implementation using the v4l-API)

nevertheless a quick google showed me that there do exist some tutorials on how to make the camera work, so i suggest you go through them, and once you are able to grab frames from any application, we go and try to make it work with Gem.

on a related note: it seems that libv4l is going to be included in debian soon (probably once the lenny release is done and package inclusion returns to normal); i hope this will be the solution to the v4l-2 disaster...

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