On Tue, 26 May 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > On 05/26/2009 02:08 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > > First of all, which app are you using to test the cam ? And are you using > > > that > > > app in combination with libv4l ? > > > > xawtv, no, it doesn't use libv4l, but it works with the old > > gspcav1-20071224. Ok, maybe it used a different v4l version, but I have > > v4l1_compat loaded. > > > > xawtv has known bugs making it not work with gspca (or many other > properly implemented v4l drivers that is). Now those bugs are fixed in > some distro's but this might very well be the cause. Try using ekiga > (together with LD_PRELOAD=..../v4l1compat.so) Coooooool! Loading the driver without parameters and using LD_LIBRARY_PATH="v4l2-apps/libv4l/libv4l1/:v4l2-apps/libv4l/libv4l2/:v4l2-apps/libv4l/libv4lconvert/" \ LD_PRELOAD=v4l2-apps/libv4l/libv4l1/v4l1compat.so mplayer tv:// -tv \ driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0 -vo x11 started the video! Thanks a million, Hans! Cheers Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html