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Hi all,
I have spent a lot of time trying to setup ZM and I am almost there apart from the webcam images misbehaving.
I am using the microsoft lifecam VX 6000

and the Philips ToUcam Pro

I setup all possible combinations in the palette and I still get either blank, non-functioning images or of the type attached below. I know I am getting close because when I move in front of the camera the image moves too, it's just that it is not proper as you can see.

I search the specs of both cameras and ToUCam Pro is a YUV420. I am not sure what the Microsoft camera is using, but still, as I said, I tried almost all combos.

Any suggestions in how to get it to work? How to fix it? When I try to capture images with streamer or xawtv it works fine which is very puzzling.

...and when I run:
sudo zmu -d /dev/video1 -q -v -V1

I get:

Video Device: /dev/video1
Video Capabilities
Name: Philips 740 webcam
Type: 1
Can capture
Video Channels: 1
Audio Channels: 1
Maximum Width: 640
Maximum Height: 480
Minimum Width: 160
Minimum Height: 120
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 320
Height: 240
Picture Attributes
Palette: 15 - YUV 4:2:0 Planar
Colour Depth: 24
Brightness: 32256
Hue: 65535
Colour :16091
Contrast: 20480
Whiteness: 10240
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: Webcam
Channel: 0
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 49111 - Unknown

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 server. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.