[JDS] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Bug #3663] Cheese Webcam Booth - video recording issue

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Issue #3663 has been updated by Ken Mays.


As the JDS team works on these and other issues, try to use FFMPEG 1.1.2 for a webcam video recording workaround. You can also use gstreamer's gst-launch (which is the manual procedure of the Cheese backend approach).  You can test issues between the two tools...

FFMPEG 1.1.2 is in the sfe-encumbered repo, optimized for video work, and well maintained by the SFE team. FFMPEG is a great tool and records audio/video to most supported formats (AVI/MP4/etc).

Se: http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/How%20to%20capture%20a%20webcam%20input

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Bug #3663: Cheese Webcam Booth - video recording issue
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3663

Author: r a
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: OI JDS
Category: 
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


After upgrading my USB Webcam to a Logitech C310, the device is correctly identified and works with both Ekiga and to a degree with Cheese Webcam Booth, the device is correctly listed as providing 160x120, 320x240, 640x480 and 1280x960 resolutions. While single photo and burst photo mode work correctly there is an issue with video recording as any resolution.

When video mode is selected, the Cheese Webcam Booth screen goes black, the start video recording button can be pressed but only a single image is recorded.

Thinking this was a data rate issue on the USB bus, I added a Belkin Digiconnect 5 Port USB 2.0 PCI card to my system which was correctly identified and the Logitech C310 was plugged into this card.  The problem still remains with the video recording, it only appears to record 0.01 seconds of video.

I have used the Belkin Digiconnect USB card for connecting an external HDD and it works perfectly copying around 500GB. 



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