Announcing a new F-10 Feature Proposal: Better Webcam Support

[Hans de Goede]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 22:17 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>>>> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
>>>>>>> See:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
>>>>>> Any reason a shim library is simpler than porting apps to V4L2?
>>>>> Same question here. There's a good number of applications that are
>>>>> either obsoleted by a v4l2 version, or support both versions. Which
>>>>> applications were you thinking of supporting with this scheme?
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless there's tens of open source apps that would need changing, or a
>>>>> couple of (useful) proprietary ones that don't support v4l2, the library
>>>>> is probably not very useful to have (especially as you probably wouldn't
>>>>> be able to port _all_ the v4l1 drivers to v4l2).
>>>>>
>>>> See my reaction to Bill's question, and yes there are a few usefull
>>>> proprietary apps in the mix unfortunately.
>>> Do you have a list of those apps? Both the proprietary ones and the Open
>>> Source ones. For the latter, it could be more interesting to create a
>>> guide for the conversion from V4L1 to V4L2, and see whether Fedora
>>> maintainers of those projects can help out with the conversion, or at
>>> least submit it upstream for consideration.
>>>
>> No list atm, noteworthy closed source ones are flash (adobe version) and
>> skype. Opensource v4l1 viewers I know about are camomara, spcaview. But
>> quite a few v4l2 apps also don't work with all v4l2 cams due to not
>> supporting all needed colorformats, examples of these are for example xawtv
>> and luvcview.
>>
>> I must say my primary focus at the moment is getting drivers cleaned up and
>> merged in the mainline, but the userspace side of things definetely needs
>> work too.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
> 
> Is there something that Fedora users with few webcams that aren't
> recognised under Fedora because of non-existing drivers can do to
> help? Is there some way that we can give you feedback about webcams we
> have so that they get supported? I know that that is a lame question
> but I had to ask it.
> 

Well, there always is a chance it is supported but the usb id isn't registered 
as such yet, do you know which usb controller / bridge the webcam uses and 
which ccd sensor? Otherwise try installing the windows drivers (under wine for 
example) and look through the .inf files / use strings on the binaries for hints.

Regards,

Hans