ekiga works, but vgrabbg gets green picture, on logitech orbit af sphere webcam

[Xn Nooby]

Bump. Still no luck yet.  Any suggestions?


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Logitech Orbit AF Sphere webcam, and am trying to access it
> using the "stopmotion" app. Apparently the stopmotion program calls
> vgrabbj to grab an image from the webcam. I am running Ubuntu Desktop
> i386 8.10-RC1.
>
> When I run Ekiga, it is able to grab video from the Quickcam perfectly.
>
> When I run the "stopmotion" program, it only imports a green screen.
>
> When I vgrabbg manually, I get a single green picture.
>
> I've read a lot of messages in various forums, but nobody seemed to
> have the green picture problem. Since it works in Ekiga, I assume it
> should be able to work with stopmotion/vgrabbj.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> -----
>
> h at hone:~$ lsusb
> Bus 008 Device 002: ID 046d:0994 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF
>
> -----
>
> h at hone:~$ vgrabbj -s /dev/video0
> vgrabbj, Version 0.9.6
> Videodevice name: /dev/video0 (UVC Camera (046d:0994))
> Capabilities
> Type     : 1    Values can be looked up at videodev.h
> Channels : 1
> Audio    : 0
> MaxWidth : 960
> MaxHeight: 720
> MinWidth : 48
> MinHeigth: 32
>
> Current Settings:
> Brightness: 32896
> Hue       : 0
> Color     : 8224
> Contrast  : 8224
> Whiteness : 0
> Depth     : 16
> Palette   : YUYV (8)
> Width     : 800
> Height    : 600
> Chromakey : 0
> h at hone:~$
>
> -----
>
> h at hone:~$ vgrabbj -f test.jpg -d /dev/video0 -i svga  && eog test.jpg
> Reading image from /dev/video0
> There was no map allocated to be freed...
> h at hone:~$
> (results in green image)
>