[opensuse] Philips Vesta webcam + Kopete
Hello listmates, I’ve got a question about my using my old (okay, VERY old) Philips Vesta webcam together with Kopete. I am running openSUSE 10.3, with KDE 3.5.9, release 65.1 (latest update this morning). Kopete is version 0.12.7. The webcam is recognized by the system, and the PWC module is correctly loaded. I get a picture in Kopete too, but the image is very small, has a blue tint and my contacts tell me my camera is very slow and freezes on occasion. When I look at the preview image in Kopete, the image does not freeze, but I see the other symptoms as well. Playing with the color and whitebalance controls in Kopete changes nothing, not even if I adjust the sliders completely to the left or right. The camera is identified as model: Philips PCVC675K WebCam [pwc] in Yast2 Hardware information. Does anyone have an idea how I can improve/fix this…or is it time to finally get a new webcam… ☺ Thanks for any tips/ideas, Joop N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�Z+i�b�*'jW(�f�vǦj)h���Ǿ��i�������
On Monday 14 July 2008 10:12:28 J Beris wrote:
Hello listmates,
I’ve got a question about my using my old (okay, VERY old) Philips Vesta webcam together with Kopete. I am running openSUSE 10.3, with KDE 3.5.9, release 65.1 (latest update this morning). Kopete is version 0.12.7.
The webcam is recognized by the system, and the PWC module is correctly loaded. I get a picture in Kopete too, but the image is very small, has a blue tint and my contacts tell me my camera is very slow and freezes on occasion. When I look at the preview image in Kopete, the image does not freeze, but I see the other symptoms as well. Playing with the color and whitebalance controls in Kopete changes nothing, not even if I adjust the sliders completely to the left or right.
The camera is identified as model: Philips PCVC675K WebCam [pwc] in Yast2 Hardware information.
Does anyone have an idea how I can improve/fix this…or is it time to finally get a new webcam… ☺
You can try asking 'taupter' in the IRC channel #kopete on Freenode if he would be willing to help you fix the image processing for this webcam in Kopete. Typically this needs a kdelibs3 rebuilt with --enable-debug to get the info he will need. Other than that I can recommend the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, it works out of the box and has excellent image quality. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Will Stephenson wrote:
Other than that I can recommend the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, it works out of the box and has excellent image quality. I am happy to hear that. The 9000 is the one I am giving to my dad for his birthday.
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