Logitech HD Webcam Pro c910 && webcamd/Skype
Matthias Apitz
guru at unixarea.de
Sat May 12 08:51:08 UTC 2012
Hello,
I have with the USB cam Logitech HD Webcam Pro c910 (see:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat ) different results in my two
netbooks:
EeePC 900:
kernel: r226986: Tue Nov 1 2011
$ ls -l /dev/vid*
crw-rw---- 1 webcamd webcamd 0x71 12 may 10:21 /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 webcamd webcamd 0x7c 12 may 10:23 /dev/video8
$ pkg_info | egrep 'webcam|cuse4|skype|linux_v4l2'
cuse4bsd-kmod-0.1.21_1 Cuse4BSD character device loopback driver for userspace
pwcview-1.4.1_3 The Video4Linux PWC webcam viewer
skype-2.1.0.81,1 P2P VoIP software
webcamd-3.0.0.2 A port of Linux USB webcam and DVB drivers into userspace
the above two devices /dev/video[0|8] are shown fine in Skype and both
are working with Skype 2.1.0.81,1; as well both devices work fine with
pwcview;
Asus Aspire One D250:
kernel: r214444: Thu Oct 28 2010
$ ls -l /dev/vid*
crw-rw-rw- 1 webcamd webcamd 0, 94 12 may 08:10 /dev/video0
crw-rw-rw- 1 webcamd webcamd 0, 125 12 may 10:34 /dev/video8
$ pkg_info | egrep 'webcam|cuse4|skype|linux_v4l2'
cuse4bsd-kmod-0.1.23 Cuse4BSD character device loopback driver for userspace
linux_v4l2wrapper-kmod-1.0_2 Linux compatibility layer - V4L2 ioctl handler
pwcview-1.4.1_3 The Video4Linux PWC webcam viewer
skype-2.0.0.72,1 P2P VoIP software
webcamd-3.2.0.1 A port of Linux USB webcam and DVB drivers into userspace
in this netbook in Skype only device /dev/video0 is presented and works;
with pwcview both cam are working, but /dev/video8 says:
$ pwcview -d /dev/video8
libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
Any idea why skype is not seeing /dev/video8? Is it worth to debug this
or is it just the older Skype version?
Btw: the cam Logitech HD Webcam Pro c910 produces the best pictures I
have ever seen; in my company we use this as well for comercial
videoconferencing with Tandberg Movie.
Thanks
matthias
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