[Bug 226963] Re: vlc crashes when opening a v4l webcam device

[Pau Espin (Sharwin_F)]

Hi,
as I said, my cam is now working without any problems on some applications
(like cheese), while some other applications which seems haven't applied the
last patches for libv4l or likely needs a library preload
(LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so). This second case is the case of
VLC at the moment.

So the problem now with Intrepid is different from the one on the first
post. It doesn't crash, but I need to preload the library manually to make
it work as a V4L2 device.

If you wish you might read more about this on these links:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/267522
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv4l/+bug/260918
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1804


2008/11/26 Magnus S <magnus.suther at gmail.com>

> I have the feeling this problem is at a deeper level than vlc. Are you
> sure this is isolated to vlc? Is cheese working? Is the camera working
> anywhere?
>
> We need more information about your camera. Does it show up in lsusb? Or in
> lspci? Or lshw? If so, we want the verbose output from the command that
> shows the camera:
> * sudo lspci -vvnn
> or
> * sudo lsusb -v
> or
> * sudo lshw
>
> Copy and paste the output into a text file, and attach to this report.
> If the camera doesn't show up anywhere, perhaps you can get the information
> from the reseller? Or at the box...
>
> Please also attach your complete /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> //magnus
>
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