Creative webcam works in gstreamer, not ZM :(
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:11 pm
I've an old Creative PD1030 USB webcam that installs as /dev/video1 when I plug it into Ubuntu 10.04 with zm1.24.2 from the repo.
It works fine with gst-launch -v v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! autovideosink.
The verbiage from gst-launch says its 640x480 YV12 framerate=100/1.
I don't see YV12 as a selection in zoneminder and I can't get it to work. If I set 640x480 image size the /dev/video1(0) link stays red. If I set 320x240 the link goes yellow but the monitor window show green with moving flashing black lines and "static". I've tried all the Source Tab Capture Palette settings.
Is something setup incorrectly in zm that prevents setting a 640x480 frame size on any of my other cameras too?
Actually 320x240 is fine for my purposes so I haven't asked about it until now.
I don't think 640x480 vs. 320x240 capture size is the issue as I can set gstreamer to use a 320x240 capture with a more complicated gst-launch command and the webcam works fine.
Ideas, other than that Video for Linux is fundamentally a piece of crap.
It works fine with gst-launch -v v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! autovideosink.
The verbiage from gst-launch says its 640x480 YV12 framerate=100/1.
I don't see YV12 as a selection in zoneminder and I can't get it to work. If I set 640x480 image size the /dev/video1(0) link stays red. If I set 320x240 the link goes yellow but the monitor window show green with moving flashing black lines and "static". I've tried all the Source Tab Capture Palette settings.
Is something setup incorrectly in zm that prevents setting a 640x480 frame size on any of my other cameras too?
Actually 320x240 is fine for my purposes so I haven't asked about it until now.
I don't think 640x480 vs. 320x240 capture size is the issue as I can set gstreamer to use a 320x240 capture with a more complicated gst-launch command and the webcam works fine.
Ideas, other than that Video for Linux is fundamentally a piece of crap.