Have done the check through doco, wiki, forum and I am hoping that someone out there may know the answer, or can point me in a direction to go
I use Zoneminder at our Church. Works like a charm
and has kept vandalism down since installation I have been given a webcam that I can use. It's an Intel Easy PC Camera. Standard looking USB camera. What I have found out so far:
It uses the SCPA508 driver (apparently).
It IS detected by the system (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty) and /dev/video0 is created
I can see it with ZMU:
ian@zoneminder:~$ zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -s
Video Capabilities
Name: Intel Easy PC Camera
Type: 1
Can capture
Video Channels: 1
Audio Channels: 0
Maximum Width: 352
Maximum Height: 288
Minimum Width: 160
Minimum Height: 120
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 160
Height: 120
Picture Attributes
Palette: 4 - 24bit RGB
Colour Depth: 24
Brightness: 16384
Hue: 0
Colour :0
Contrast: 0
Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: SPCA508
Channel: 0
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 49092 - Unknown
Dmesg may also shed some light:
<snip>
[ 12.437787] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found.(SPCA508?)
[ 12.489493] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 12.629843] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
[ 12.629849] ubuntu/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.12 registered
[ 12.773610] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
</snip>
Not sure what the last line means.
Can anyone tell me what "Format: 49092 - Unknown" is in ZMU? That might give me a clue as to how to go forward (if there is a way).
BTW if I find the answer I will be sure to post as these forums have been a help to me in the past.
Thanks in advance
Ian