Webcam

From: John Stolz (china-rider_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 01/07/05


Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:16:29 +0000

I have a Philips 740 webcam which seems to work fine when I use
camstream, but when I try and runxawtv (3.93) I get the
following error:

This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8.1-12mdk)
/dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7):
Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=288;width=352;format=15):
No such file or directory
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=288;width=352;format=15):
No such file or directory

using the -remote option in xawtv gets me:

This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8.1-12mdk)
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7):
Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=288;width=352;format=15):
No such file or directory
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=288;width=352;format=15):
No such file or directory

I have a Dell latitude with an ATI Rage mobility graphics chip.
The video device is present (/dev/video -> /dev/video0) and the
hardware is recognised (everything works fine in camstream)
I'm on Mandrake 10.1. official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk.
I'd be grateful to be pointed in the right direction.



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