On (09/03/01 21:06), Keith Johnson wrote: > I have a cpia compatible webcam connected to my parallel port and I > have downloaded webcam from stable. > > Problem is, it does not work, and I don't know where to even begin > sorting it out. > > Running the webcam program results in the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo webcam > video4linux webcam v1.1 - (c) 1998,99 Gerd Knorr > grabber config: size 320x240, jpeg quality 75 > ftp config: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:public_html/images > uploading.jpeg => webcam.jpeg > ioctl VIDIOCGCHAN: Invalid argument
The problem is that in potato, webcam's arguments are all hardcoded. You need to download the source, edit it appropriately, and dance widdershins three times around your camera. Even then it only almost worked for me. Use the unstable version; you get to have a .webcamrc I got so annoyed at this that I went back to using my fiance's perl script, which uses vidcat to grab an image and then checks size and ftps it to the appropriate place. OK, so it only updates at 30 second intervals. That's because I have limited bandwidth. Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/
