Bug 472973

Summary:	qc-usb webcam works in gstreamer-properties but not in cheese
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Julien Thébaud <thebaud_julien>
Component:	cheese	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	hdegoede, mclasen
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Description Julien Thébaud 2008-11-25 21:24:37 UTC

Description of problem:

An old labtec webcam work well with kmod-qc-usb drivers from rpm-fusion with camstream or amsn.
The video appears in gstreamer-properties after running "qcset /dev/video0 compat=dblbuf" as said in http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ.

But cheese still do not recognize the webcam

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cheese-2.24.1-2.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install qc-usb driver with an old labtec webcam
2. run cheese
  
Actual results:
cheese don't recognize the webcam and don't show the video.

Expected results:
cheese should recognize the webcam and show the video.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2008-11-25 22:50:52 UTC

This most likely is a driver issue, not a cheese issue. cheese does some things which can stress certain drivers. Given that qc-usb is not provided by Fedora this is a not supported solution, so I'm going to close this.

Note that work is underway upstream though (and I'm participating in this work) to get qc-usb ported to v4l2 and merged into the mainline kernel, A very preliminary version of this work is available here:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~eandren/gspca-stv06xx/

But at this early point in its development I cannot advice you to test it. When I find the time to work on this I'll make sure to also test it with cheese :)