Is anyone using a webcam successfully?

I need to capture a single frame every 15 minutes or so....

So far I've tried mvc, motion, two different webcams with multiple versions of two different drivers, and all fail with the same error:

Non-zero status (-79) in isoc completion handler.

The working is different depending on the webcam and driver, but the error (-79) is always the same....

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

Could it be a USB error?

--Yan

(Last edited by cptdondo on 22 May 2006, 02:23)

Hi,

what webcams have you tried with what drivers?

I'm having the same problem. I'm still tring to compile the camE utility for OpenWRT.

Viper

I have an older Logitech 4000 that uses the pwc driver.  I've tried both the binary blob v.9 driver, and the branched v.10 open source driver.  I have a kernel patch for pwc10 if you need it.  I also have a brand new Logitech QC IM/Connect that uses the spca5xx driver.  I had some issues with the driver compiling; I did some very dirty hacks to get it to work but I still get the same failure.  No kernel patch for that one; it's an ugly mess and I don't wnat to foist that on anyone yet...

I had email this AM from the spca maintainer, which may explain what we're seeing:

>> your hardware cannot
> >support decoding pictures in real times   
> >Did you compute what is the bandwith need to decode a 640x480 jpeg picture
> > at 15 fp/s ?
[snip]
it is a zc0301 chips it should be easy to patch the code and get supported.
There are an application name spcacat to get picture from the webcam without
decompressing the jpeg stream in the spcaview package, so that should work
fine with spca5xx-LE and spcacat for your need and a little patch to get your
webcam know by the driver 

The problem is also that usb2 support appears to be broken in kamikaze with the 2.4.32 kernel, so I  am running at usb 1 speeds....

So it looks like a) I need to see if usb2 works with the 2.6 kernel, and b) get a decent patch for the spca driver, and c) get spca5xx/LE working for my webcam.

Fortunately the maintainer seems very responsive....  :-)

--Yan

I haven't tried it, but macsat's spca5xx-LE webcam tutorial looks promising-

http://www.macsat.com/macsat/content/view/36/30/

I've tried macsat's LE. He's just hosting it, as far as I know. The LE driver is working fine, but the picture is overbrighted...

Hopefully I'll have some Kamikaze 2.6 builds later today or tomorrow...

I have the driver built, but spcacat will take a bit more work.  (Kamikaze 2.6 has an older version of the driver, so it's just a matter of getting the newer tarball.  I can't take credit for that.  :-) )

--Yan

Hey,

Anyone here successfully running webcam on Kamikaze 2.6? I've been trying, but spca5xx crashes, and I'm having trouble compiling -le. If it's working for you, what cam/router/driver/software are you using?

Thanks,

- Yasha

Hi,
I'm successfully running Microsoft VX-1000 with official build: http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7 … m47xx-2.6/