Re: using a web camera

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On 08/27/16 12:05, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am trying to set my computer to use a web camera (this function
> doesn't work actually with cheese, for example).
> 
> With this program (cheese) I can see images by the camera, but when I
> shot an image, then the image that appears in the window of shot images
> is blank...
> 
> 
> I read the document The Webcam HOWTO (at
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Webcam-HOWTO/) and I tried to do
> what wrote there,   but I hadn't success...
> 
> 
> Can I get an concrete help to achieve my purpose ?

That depends.  What do you have for a webcam?

according to "lsusb", I have a:

> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam

Near as I can tell, This uses the uvcvideo driver, as I have the
following modules loaded:

> uvcvideo               90112  0
> dell_laptop            20480  0
> videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
> videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
> videobuf2_v4l2         28672  1 uvcvideo
> videobuf2_core         36864  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
> v4l2_common            16384  1 videobuf2_v4l2
> videodev              167936  4 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
> media                  24576  2 uvcvideo,videodev

And, now I'll say: "It works for me".

What do you have?

> Thank you

> Angelo

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