From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 15:06:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927CC106564A for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe03.c2i.net [212.247.154.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E818FC0A for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:06:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=0KkIQGagYCvnrzE3Z2Lmid87OPdbX6VLcZYwAuLMZ50= c=1 sm=1 a=IU0TiZmyZPMA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=CL8lFSKtTFcA:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:17 a=fGO4tVQLAAAA:8 a=EIwWLcqJZ1boMC9ffqwA:9 a=6TG_8lzcY4KdoPKuw4IA:7 a=vITOKqmlmEJC_5f1DUVj2Sn0RdoA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:117 Received: from [188.126.198.129] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop002.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe03.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.19) with ESMTPA id 103922840; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:55:59 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, jimmiejaz@gmail.com Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:55:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4D88AF58.1080006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D88AF58.1080006@gmail.com> X-Face: *nPdTl_}RuAI6^PVpA02T?$%Xa^>@hE0uyUIoiha$pC:9TVgl.Oq, NwSZ4V"|LR.+tj}g5 %V,x^qOs~mnU3]Gn; cQLv&.N>TrxmSFf+p6(30a/{)KUU!s}w\IhQBj}[g}bj0I3^glmC( :AuzV9:.hESm-x4h240C`9=w MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103221555.17815.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vlc, webcam streaming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:06:05 -0000 On Tuesday 22 March 2011 15:16:56 Jimmie James wrote: > Camera works fine with skype, emesene work wonderfully, mplayer gives me > an image, but it flashes between green screen and the actual images. > > Full vlc -vv output is here, http://pastebin.com/MaEP6f6R (highlights > below) Anyone have a suggestion/hint/tip? > > VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l://'. Check the log for details. Hi, I think VLC removed support for Webcams. Only video streaming devices and DVB- X devices are supported. Flickering pictures might be due to lack of buffering in webcamd. Could you dump the config descriptor with usbconfig for your device? Which version of webcamd are you using? --HPS