Hi all,

Erjo and I are trying to get the full webcam support in slitaz. Slitaz, previously, provided out of box support to some of the webcams (uvcvideo and gspca_main)

Download/install the following pkgs from http://people.slitaz.org/~jozee/packages/

1) linux-video pkg  (having many more webcams support e.g. philips, logitech) (I will add this to repos soon)
2) libv4l pkg (video 4 linux 1 and 2 support extra libs) (now in repos)

Then, plugin your webcam

 
tazhw detect-usb

/dev/video0 should be created. Add yourself to "video" group if not done already.

Then:

For skype:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so 
skype &

(if you don't do LD_PRELOAD, skype will crash when video starts)

You should then be able to see your webcam in skype:
OPTIONS->Video device-> Usb camera (/dev/video0)
Press "Test" and you should see a live image.

For mplayer:

download mplayer-svn based with tv, v4l enabled (http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/9bf33ac95b16)

 export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240:device=/dev/video0 -vo x11

Hope it works for you too. Let us know. We can then put this in wiki.

Thanks

Rohit

=== Edit: Troubleshooting: ====
if there is any problem in detecting your webcamera, do this

 lsusb 
modprobe correct_module 

You can use lsusb (usbutils pkg) helps to find your webcamera: e.g., Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0c45:613b Microdia Win2 PC Camera. Then, to find the correct module, do google search, e.g., for gspca-based webcams, refer here: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_GSPCA.html

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