Fwd: cheese brings a smile to my face
- From: "Zenko Klapko Jr." <covertcodeop1 gmail com>
- To: cheese-list gnome org
- Subject: Fwd: cheese brings a smile to my face
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:35:50 -0400
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From: daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com>
Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: cheese brings a smile to my face
To: "Zenko Klapko Jr." <covertcodeop1 gmail com>
Cc: "cheese-list gnome org" <cheese-list gnome org>
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 have a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY graphics card and
I am using the radeon driver.
> 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!
####
yeah i'm sure you get flooded with email messages.
daniel
>
> Always learning,
> -Zenko
>
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