Logitech HD Webcam Pro c910 && webcamd/Skype
Hans Petter Selasky
hselasky at c2i.net
Sat May 12 09:15:53 UTC 2012
On Saturday 12 May 2012 10:51:00 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 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
Have you loaded snd_uaudio on both machines?
--HPS
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