[ubuntu-in] My webcam 041e:0405f does not work in Hardy

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao
<dasaratharao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All!
> After I upgraded to Hardy Heron, I had two problems, one is wi-fi
> connectivity and the other is my webcam. My wi-fi connectivity problem got
> resolved with the help of one of the members in this forum. My webcam is not
> working still, though it worked with Gutsy. I searched th e net and got a
> driver package ov51x-jpeg and installed through package manager. It still
> did not solve my problem. Probably, I may have to configure manually. I am
> not sure on this. My device is listed under usb list. Can anyone help me?
> Thanks.

Hi Mohan,

Simply saying 'does not work' is not sufficient for us to to debug the problem.
Which webcam is it? What are you exactly trying to do with webcam? Do
you have more than one video/V4L devices (ex a TV tuner card)?

Try running following command (without quotes) and tell us if it works.
'gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 !
video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink'

Also try replacing v4l2src with v4lsrc if above command does not work
for you. This will help us to know which driver supports your webcam.

There is another tool which can be launched with command
'gstreamer-properties' where you can test your video sources.

Hope this helps.


Onkar
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