[Bug 26911] spca5xx doesn't record with xawtv or streamer

[Mario Vukelic]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/26911

Comment:
I have used the Logitech Laptop camera for a few days in dapper in i386, 2.6.15-19-686.

I can record in xawtv if I go through the GUI, change the movie format to AVI, and choose the movie format "24 Bit True Color". All other movie format options fail with the mentioned message. I have found no way to set the option in the CLI of xawtv or streamer.

I can also snapshot in Camorama (Laplace and Mirror Image crash). gqview shows a picture if I set -v /dev/video0, but hangs when I capture or take a picture. Ekiga works fine too now - this seems to have improved over the last few days. Initially Ekiga would sometimes not find the video device, but reliably does now.