On 04/16/2009 12:26 AM, Adam Baker wrote:
On Wednesday 15 Apr 2009, Hans de Goede wrote:
Currently only whitebalancing is enabled and only on Pixarts (pac) webcams
(which benefit tremendously from this). To test this with other webcams
(after instaling this release) do:
export LIBV4LCONTROL_CONTROLS=15
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so v4l2ucp&
Strangely while those instructions give me a whitebalance control for the
sq905 based camera I can't get it to appear for a pac207 based camera
regardless of whether LIBV4LCONTROL_CONTROLS is set.
Thats weird, there is a small bug in the handling of pac207
cams with usb id 093a:2476 causing libv4l to not automatically
enable whitebalancing (and the control) for cams with that id,
but if you have LIBV4LCONTROL_CONTROLS set (exported!) both
when loading v4l2ucp (you must preload v4l2convert.so!) and
when loading your viewer, then it should work.
Notice the whitebalance and normalize checkboxes in v4l2ucp,
as well as low and high limits for normalize.
Now start your favorite webcam viewing app and play around with the
2 checkboxes. Note normalize seems to be useless in most cases. If
whitebalancing makes a *strongly noticable* difference for your webcam
please mail me info about your cam (the usb id), then I can add it to
the list of cams which will have the whitebalancing algorithm (and the v4l2
control to enable/disable it) enabled by default.
The whitebalance works really well with the sq905 (ID 2770:9120). Without it
the image is very red when using artificial light, with auto whitebalance the
colours look slightly desaturated but otherwise fine.
Good to hear it helps for the sq905 too, is that the only know id for sq905 cams ?
Regards,
Hans
Adam
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