Random Thoughts

I discovered that Cheese crashes on my HP laptop.  The good news is that guvc works just fine.  I'm happy with it so bye bye, Cheese!

I just got the AMD Catalyst 13.4 stable.  Unlike the beta releases, the fglrx deb packages have the version numbers, so that's a good thing!

Ubuntu 13.04 upgrade prompts is showing up now.  I'll keep waiting till they get their issues sorted.

Random thoughts...

I had problems getting Skype video to work on my Ubuntu box.  What I eventually did was to lean back on v4l1.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ./skype

I'm moving to Skype 4.0 and wanted to make sure I tracked this change.

Also blogging about my old Acer Aspire 5920g when trying to get the CrystalEye Webcam to work on my old Gutsy Gibbon.  I had a few scripts written and also installed uvcview (I believe).

To get the camera to record, I used this line:

ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -r 24 -i /dev/video0 -f avi filename.avi

Installed luvcview and ran this line to get webcam to capture snapshots.

luvcview -f yuv

You will need libsdl for this to work as well as the uvcvideo drivers.

From lsmod:

uvcvideo, compat_ioctl32, videodev, v4l1_compat, v4l2_common

This blog might help.

$ wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20070512.tar.gz$ tar zxvf luvcview-20070512.tar.gz$ cd luvcview-20070512$ make$ make install