Re: [Spca50x-devs] Flexcam 100 camera works with spcaview but not sane programs
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:40:10 -0500
- From: "Mike Laughton" <mike.laughton@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Spca50x-devs] Flexcam 100 camera works with spcaview but not sane programs
Doh! All that time and I never tried the "scanimage --mode Color"
option. xcam also works now when I change the "Scan Mode" field to
"Color".
I guess I'm the reason why tech support lines always starts their
questions with "Is the computer plugged in, sir?"
Thanks for your help, Gerard.
Mike
On 4/6/06, gerard klaver <gerard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:59 -0500, Mike Laughton wrote:
> > My wife sent away for a freebie PC camera that I've been trying to get
> > working in Fedora Core 4 (camera and environment details below).
> > Using spca5xx and spcaview I got everything working quite well (very
> > impressed with the whole thing, in fact). But my ultimate goal is to
> > access the camera through sane-enabled applications like scanimage and
> > xsane-gimp. This is possible, right?
> >
> > Unfortunately, whenever I use any of the sane applications with this
> > camera I get a fatal error of "sane_start: Invalid argument". Looking
> > at /var/log/messages I see "VIDIOCMCAPTURE: invalid format (1)". In
> > short, I'm stuck -- I don't know where to go from here. Anyone have
> > any ideas?
> >
> > Below is everything I know of that might be helpful. If you need
> > more, just say the word. Eternally grateful toward anyone who can
> > help...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> <lines deleted>
> >
> Did you try xcam, also with scanimage you need to give some options
> like
> scanimage -B -d stv680:libusb:001:002 --batch=out.ppm --batch-count 5
> --mode "Color RGB"
>
> For the v4l backend it will be different
>
> with --mode "Color RGB" you select the size of the image,
> check with scanimage -d v4l -h your -mode options.
>
> --
> --------
> m.vr.gr.
> Gerard Klaver
>
>
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