On Friday 26 June 2020 16:44:32 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for > > machine. > > > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb > > stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. > > > > From dmesg: > > [598961.717093] usb 1-12.4.4.4: new high-speed USB device number 18 > > using xhci_hcd [598961.869828] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New USB device found, > > idVendor=1bcf, idProduct=284c [598961.869837] usb 1-12.4.4.4: New > > USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [598961.869844] > > usb 1-12.4.4.4: Product: SPCA2650 AV Camera [598961.869848] usb > > 1-12.4.4.4: Manufacturer: SunplusIT Inc [598961.869852] usb > > 1-12.4.4.4: SerialNumber: 01.00.00 > > [598961.954556] media: Linux media interface: v0.10 > > [598961.973982] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > > [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera > > (1bcf:284c) [598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for > > entity Extension 4 was not initialized! [598962.015756] uvcvideo > > 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 was not > > initialized! [598962.015760] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type > > for entity Processing 2 was not initialized! [598962.015764] > > uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not > > initialized! [598962.015987] input: SPCA2650 AV Camera as > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-12/1-12.4/1-12.4.4/1-12.4.4. > >4/1-12.4.4.4:1.0/input/input20 [598962.016163] usbcore: registered > > new interface driver uvcvideo > > > > Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Hi Gene, > > try to use your camera with mpv player. Just use something like this: > > $ mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0 > That sorta works, video refresh rate at 640x480 is about 1 frame a second, and if any camera motion, has severe window shade effects. Not plugged directly into a usb3 mobo port however. Color etc seems good though.
From the terminal: gene@coyote:/etc/init.d$ mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0 Playing: av://v4l2:/dev/video0 (+) Video --vid=1 (rawvideo) libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate [vo/opengl] Suspected software renderer or indirect context. [vo/opengl] Suspected software renderer or indirect context. Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 [vo/xv] No Xvideo support found. [vo/sdl] Using opengl Using conversion filter. VO: [sdl] 640x480 yuv420p V: 00:02:06 [ffmpeg/demuxer] video4linux2,v4l2: Some buffers are still owned by the caller on close. [ffmpeg] ioctl(VIDIOC_QBUF): Bad file descriptor [ffmpeg] ioctl(VIDIOC_QBUF): Bad file descriptor [ffmpeg] ioctl(VIDIOC_QBUF): Bad file descriptor Exiting... (Quit) > My camera works just fine with Skype, Zoom and Hangouts but it doesn't > work with VLC. > > Kind regards > Georgi Thanks Georgi. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
