logitech webcam doesn't work

Xn Nooby xnooby at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 00:00:08 UTC 2008


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?

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h at hone:~$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 046d:0994 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF

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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 (
Width : 800
Height : 600
Chromakey : 0
h at hone:~$

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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)




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