built-in webcam

[nutchanat sattayakawee]

--- Ed Lau <ed.lau at mail.ee> wrote:

> > How can I check if it detects my webcam?
> 
> at the Konsole, try:
> 
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l
> 
> Or if you want e.g. 800x600 picture, try:
> 
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l -vop scale=800
> 
> 
> Certainly, you need to install mplayer, which is
> available, if you
> enable universe/multiverse repositories at
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> Then install mplayer and its codecs.
> 
> Usually webcam is device like /dev/video0
> If you have also TV-card at the same time, then
> there might be webcam
> as /dev/video1, etc.
> 

Thank you for that. It seems that it doesn't detect my
webcam. Does anyone know how I can make my webcam
work? Do I have to install webcam driver? It worked
when I had Windows but I had to install the driver.

Thank you for your help
Diiar

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