[dms-discuss] webcam + linux?

Braden Pellett braden at davismakerspace.org
Sun Oct 20 22:13:36 PDT 2013


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:01:00PM -0700, James R Holliday wrote:
> Yeah. I used it to spy on my neighbors at my last job. And to vid
> conference with USC. Should work.

Hmmm... I tried motion and fswebcam, and they cannot seem to communicate with it.  Motion complains about an unsupported pallette (GBRG), and fswebcam says it times out waiting for frames.  The same thing happens if I try this LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so trick I have seen online.

I wasn't able to talk to it on my laptop either.

Both are Arch linux though, i.e. similar kernels and drivers installed I suppose, so perhaps I should see what happens on another machine, e.g. Gutenberg.

Do you happen to know what driver you were using?

Some info on my end:

lsusb
  Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0461:0815 Primax Electronics, Ltd Micro Innovations IC200 Webcam

v4l2-ctl -D
  Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
    Driver name   : spca561
    Card type     : iCam320
    Bus info      : usb-musb-hdrc.1.auto-1.3
    Driver version: 3.12.0
    Capabilities  : 0x85000001
      Video Capture
      Read/Write
      Streaming
      Device Capabilities
    Device Caps   : 0x05000001
      Video Capture
      Read/Write
      Streaming

journalctl -b -k
  Oct 20 20:01:56 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 8 using musb-hdrc
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: device v0461 p0815 is not supported
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0461, idProduct=0815
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: Product: iCam320
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: PrimaScan
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: gspca_main: spca561-2.14.0 probing 0461:0815
  Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: input: spca561 as /devices/ocp.3/47400000.usb/47401c00.usb/musb-hdrc.1.auto/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/input/input2

...that "device v0461 p0815 is not supported" is not very promising... I wonder if that is the spca561 driver saying that...

Thanks,
  Braden



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