On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 18:13 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Andy Walls wrote: > > The Software for our Sakar branded Jeilin camera was a little smarter. > > Oh. So _you_ had a Sakar branded camera. This was one of the things that > causes problems recently. In gspca.txt we have the supported camera listed > as > > jeilinj 0979:0280 Sakar 57379 > > which seemed to me to be quite wrong, as (unless I have made a bad > mistake) the Sakar 57379 has a Jeilin 2005C or D chip inside (proprietary > interface camera, Product number 0x227, definitely not one of these guys) > and AFAICT the Jeilin 2005C-D cameras can not be made to stream at all, > operating only in stillcam mode. So, when I was contacted about this new > camera I saw that listing and thought it had to be wrong! > > Hoping that you still have some way to check what the Sakar product number > of your cam really was... The Internet never forgets: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg07025.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg07127.html It looks like I hypothesized my camera had a JL2008 chips given the AVI files it created had "JL2008V2C" in it. I hope that email thread archive has the information you need. Also there is this thread where Jean-Francois talked about the contents of gspca.txt: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg08477.html Regards, Andy -- 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