mplayer && webcamd

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 12/29/13 19:53, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have on a 10-CURRENT with ports from 1st of November:
>
> MPlayer SVN-r35933-snapshot-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
> webcamd-3.11.0.2
> pwcview-1.4.1_4
>
> The cam of my netbook, a CNF7129, works fine with Skype and with
> pwcview. How I could use mplayer to work with this and record the video
> stream? Thanks in advance.
>
> I have googled around and the hints I found, for example:
>
> mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
>
> only says:
> MPlayer SVN-r35933-snapshot-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
>
> Playing tv://.
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
>
> TV file format detected.
> No such driver: v4l
>
> 	matthias
>

Hi,

My blind guess:

Have you tried libv4l and v4l2 and libv4l2 ?

--HPS