Logitech HD Webcam Pro c910 && webcamd/Skype
Matthias Apitz
guru at unixarea.de
Sat May 12 15:42:42 UTC 2012
El día Saturday, May 12, 2012 a las 10:51:00AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
> 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?
Ok, I compiled webcamd with debug and additional printf's to catch the
ioctl's coming down from Skype; I launched by hand (i.e. not via
devd(8)) two webcamd in two windows:
# ./webcamd -d ugen4.2 (for the built-in, gives /dev/video0)
# ./webcamd -d ugen4.4 (for the external, gives /dev/video8)
Then I launched skype and on its start only /dev/video0 is probed as I
can see in the window for ugen4.2; the other device is not shown in the
skype's config window and never probed with open or ioctl's;
I stopped both webcamd proc and launched only the one for the external
cam:
# ./webcamd -d ugen4.4 (for the external, gives now /dev/video0)
and the device /dev/video0 is probed by skype on start and is just
working fine;
Now I altered the order of the start of the two webcamd proc, i.e. the
external was now created as /dev/video0 and the built-in as video8;
in skype now only the external is presented and working;
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the older skype
2.0.0.72,1 ignores /dev/video8;
I was not able to create /dev/video1 by launching webcamd with -v 1;
using -v only gives video8, video16, video24 for 1, 2 and 3 resp.,
all are not seen by skype;
It must be a skype bug, I think.
Thanks
matthias
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