Bug 472973 - qc-usb webcam works in gstreamer-properties but not in cheese
Summary: qc-usb webcam works in gstreamer-properties but not in cheese
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cheese
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-25 21:24 UTC by Julien Thébaud
Modified: 2008-11-25 22:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-11-25 22:50:52 UTC
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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 :)


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