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Recording a webcam using ffmpeg
I'm struggling with ffmpeg. My webcam can do 720p at 30fps, but only when using the MJPEG codec:
~> v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
Index : 0
Type : ...
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How do I get my Logitech Quickcam 4000 up and running?
I've just installed Debian “Squeeze” and would love it if I could get my webcam up and running. As usual I don't have a faintest idea of what I'm doing in linux - everything is so damn hard.
But I've ...
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getting an old logitech webcam to work in Linux
I'm trying to get an old Logitech QuickCam Web to work in Linux. There's a kernel module, but the last time it was updated was in 2006 and it doesn't compile against a recent kernel anymore. In ...
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Webcam on Openbsd
# dmesg
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uaudio0 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "vendor 0x093a product 0x2622" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 2
uaudio0: audio rev 1.00, 2 mixer controls
audio1 at uaudio0
ugen0 at uhub1 port 2 ...
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Why can't uvcdynctrl see my webcam?
I have added a Creative Labs Live! Optia webcam to my Debian Squeeze machine and can see it using lsusb.
Unfortunately, when I use uvcdynctrl -l I get the message No Devices Found
I am on Kernel ...
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uvcvideo - No space left on device
I'm trying to setup a camera in Zoneminder but having difficulties
~$ v4l2-ctl -d 0 --all
Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
Driver name : uvcvideo
Card type : Wireless PC-CAM
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-800 stopped working on Linux Mint
My Microsoft Lifecam VX-800 stopped working without any plausible reason. lsusb identifies the camera with the name "Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Venus USB2.0 Camera". Another unusual thing is that ...
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Getting webcam to work in Raspberry Pi
I am trying to get a HAMA webcam to work with my raspberry pi with the raspbian os.
When I type usb-devices I get:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ usb-devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 ...
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Webcam Device Driver to support H.264
I have a Creative Live Cam Connect HD (id: 041e:4093) and this webcam has an on-board H.264 encoder. Unfortunately v4l2 only inputs the feed as MJPG.
$ v4l2-ctl --list-formats
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
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Skype webcam upside down but v4l1compat missing
I am running Linux Mint, but i think this issue will be mutual with Ubuntu. My webcam in Skype is upside down (in Cheese it's ok). There are a lot of topics dealing with this coming up with fix like ...
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Deny flash plugin access to (a particular) webcam
I recently bought an external webcam to play around with OpenCV. It works great out of the box in Debian, but I realized that when I browse any site that contain flash content (youtube, soundcloud), ...
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FreeBSD on ARM architecture?
Can FreeBSD be used for ARM architecture devices? Also, is there a camera driver for FreeBSD?
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Trouble getting VLC to record from the webcam via command line
my ~/.bashrc contains the following function
webcamrecord () {
vlc v4l2:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-adev="/dev/audio2" :v4l-norm=3 :v4l-frequency=-1 :v4l-caching=300 :v4l-chroma="" ...
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Capture and broadcast video from web cam
I have server on Debian 6, without Desktop Environment and I have simple web camera. Web camera is defined like /dev/video0, so I can use cat /dev/video0 > ~/photo to get image from it (of course ...
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Getting linux webcam state via command line or API
I would, preferably, like to know of a command I can run that will let me know whether a webcam is on/off or recording/not recording, etc. Maybe a way to see if any programs are currently accessing it ...
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How to record a flash movie from a live cam on the Internet?
I am watching some webcams live from the Internet, showing some big cities around the world. I'd like to record some to show to my friends at home.
Is it possible?
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Mounting USB camera on Ubuntu
I am quite new at Linux and I have to install this SwissRanger camera on Ubuntu. I am trying to follow their USB mounting instructions and I got stuck.
From the instructions:
Modify the usbdevfs ...
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Camera capture is too slow
I had being conducting some experimentation with my Beagleboard and camera. The camera was working perfectly well initially. Later I extended my experiments by disabling the 'auto-exposure' and ...
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Linux webcam software [closed]
What are some good full-featured (whatever that means) webcam applications in linux. I know about cheese, but found some of its features lacking. Are there any others?
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How can I rotate one camera but not the other, in motion?
I have two webcams configured in motion.
Due to the way I'm positioning one of these cameras, it needs to be rotated upside down (180 degrees).
I tried putting this in it's tread.cfg file:
rotate ...
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Skype doesn't work with webcam A4Tech PK-130MG
I've just installed Mint 12 on a desktop previously running Windows Vista.
Despite using Ubuntu and Kubuntu on other machines, i still see myself as a beginner on GNU/Linux.
On this Mint 12 machine, ...
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internal webcam error: libv4l2: error turning on stream: Input/output error
Simple problem, not so simple solution as it seems to me. Whenever I try to start viewing my webcam, I get the following error:
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Input/output error
be it cheese, ...
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How can I install my webcam on Debian?
I'm trying to install the webcam driver for my Logitech C210. After some googling Linux UVC driver seems to be what I need. I followed their typical use in hope to get it installed:
git clone ...
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Having Cheese automatically take a pic and quit
I use Cheese as my webcam software. I am trying to figure out a way to have it :
Start
Click a pic
Exit
when a script is executed. The script should not be asking for permissions and there ...
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Looking for “Camera Mouse” for Linux
I have come across a cool piece of software called Camera Mouse. It lets you control your mouse cursor with just a webcam. Is there software like that for Linux based operating systems? (I would ...
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How to build a monitoring system with an infra cam?
I need to place 2 USB (?) webcams that are looking at two doors. No sound needed, just a few things:
video files must be saved at least for 30 days (I have two eee pc's for the two webcams, so cable ...
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Howto reduce skype video outgoing traffic?
Issue background
I'm having having problems with skype under linux. My video calls are all the time non-continuous and they're getting stuck.
The situation is the same whether I use skype alone, or ...
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Disabling Web camera
My Eee PC comes with a Web cam, which I never use. How can I ensure that it is effectively disabled, so that no software can use it?
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Using MJPG stream as a webcam source
I would like to use my Android smartphone as a webcam and found the app "IP webcam", which creates various outputs of the camera.
One such output is a MJPG stream, and I want to know if there is a ...
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Webcam on Angström
I am running Angström on my BeagleBoard-xm. I want to use a webcam (I have Microsoft LifeCam Cinema and Logitech C310). I installed v4l-utils, libv4l-dev and kernel-module-uvcvideo with opkg. But the ...
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Why doesn't GoogleTalk plugin recognize my camera, even with v4l?
The thing is that I have GoogleTalk plugin, also used for Google+ hangouts, and it works in my netbook, on Ubuntu. But on my laptop, using the same Ubuntu (Oneric) and having used the camera on Cheese ...
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Can the focus of a Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 be fixed at infinity under linux?
I have two Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 webcams which I am using as a home security system with the Motion package for linux. One problem I have is that because these webcams have auto-focus, sometimes ...
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Crontab not triggered
I have a program written in C with OpenCV. It captures an image from the webcam and saves on the disk with the name given as an argument. I want to trigger it every minute, thus I inserted the ...
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Matlab's Image acquisition toolbox doesn't recognize my webcam
I have to work with the image acquisition toolbox in Matlab and I find it quite disturbing to always change to windows. So I installed Matlab 2010b on my Linux machine (Arch, Kernel 39). Skype & ...
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Linux: Interface/control 3.5 mm Headphone or Microphone port? [closed]
This might sound crazy, but bear with me ;)
I am making a DIY camera trigger, and I would like to see if I can trigger it remotely by plugging it into my Microphone or Headphone ports. It's a basic ...
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How can I change the shutter speed of my webcam in Linux?
how can I change the shutter speed of my webcam in Linux?
I'm using fedora 14
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Is there a version of Wine that actually runs mainstream chat clients?
Is there a version of Wine that actually runs mainstream chat clients? I'm willing to consider commercial forks. I'd need it to support at least:
Yahoo
QQ
Skype (yes there's a native client but it's ...
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What would cause “crossover” between two USB2 webcams when using motion?
I am using the Motion package for linux to act as a security system with two Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 webcams. In general it's working very well but I'm experiencing a weird issue. Every now and then ...
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Is it possible to make a Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 work under linux?
I am trying to set up a virtual machine which will act as a home security system. (If you've chatted with me in The Tavern, you may know why...) I purchased two USB webcams (Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000) ...
