Webcam recommendations

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Mon Mar 21 12:02:17 UTC 2011


On Monday 21 March 2011 12:42:15 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Monday 21 March 2011 12:21:41 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > That's why I think that the man pages of webcamd are not enough, there
> > should be a note about if v4l or v4l2 is awaited from the application;
> > or we need some overall table describing the cams(...) from all webcamd
> > drivers and the application which can be used.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found it!
> 
> CONFIG_COMPAT was not defined during build, so the webcam'd V4L2->V4L1
> layer was never compiled. Can you compile the svn version of webcamd and
> report back?

Looks like I was too quick about that. Anyway, maybe you could bother to add 
some prints in:

v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c

Because the V4l1 -> V4L2 translation should already be in place.

--HPS


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