What is V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_BUTTON?

2009-08-20 Thread Ronny Brendel
According to the spec it is """A control which performs an action when set. Drivers must ignore the value passed with VIDIOC_S_CTRL and return an EINVAL error code on a VIDIOC_G_CTRL attempt.""" I don't get what this means. It is no boolean. It has no effect, and you cannot set it? I am probabl

Re: libv4l2 woes

2009-08-10 Thread Ronny Brendel
ogram throw out the exact same error. Can anybody please guide me? I am desperade ~.~ trying to get it to work. regards Ronny attached: the modified v4l-example On Monday 10 August 2009 19:29:58 Ronny Brendel wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently trying to read image data from my webcam.

libv4l2 woes

2009-08-10 Thread Ronny Brendel
Hi there, I am currently trying to read image data from my webcam. When I read raw data data by using open/read/close everything works just fine. Since I want to use the auto-conversion of libv4l2, I tried out reading using the v4l2_ counterparts, Unfortunately the library closes with an error m

Decoding pac207

2009-08-08 Thread Ronny Brendel
Hello, I am currently fiddling some around with capturing pictures from a very cheap webcam. Unfortunately that webcam uses the rare codec pac207. Does a decoder (as source) or a description of the codec exist? Or can you please give a hint where to search? thanks in regard Ronny -- To unsubscr