On So, 2008-03-09 at 20:01 -0400, Zenko Klapko Jr. wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Thank you for writing cheese. It's a simple and useful program. I'm > looking over the source and perhaps you can provide me with a bit of > wisdom. Well, two bits. I'm running ubuntu gusty and am able to see > the webcam preview, able to save photos, but if I toggle to video mode > X locks up. that seems very strange to me.. we had such a bug a while ago, but that was due a bug in the graphics driver.. what graphics card do you have? > I'd imagine I could ssh in, kill cheese, and it would snap > back but I'd have to setup another computer. Do you know why it locks > up on the switch to video mode? Also, I'm thinking about a project to > combine video taken from a webcam with other data such as gps. Besides > reading the source from cheese are there other resources you used to > figure out how to grab frames? I spent a moment or two poking around > and it looks like cheese doesn't talk directly to /dev/video0 but > talks to gnome or gstreamer. exactly, we are just using gstreamer to get the data from the device. i forwarded your message to the cheese mailing list; lets discuss it there! daniel > > Always learning, > -Zenko > -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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