Fwd: cheese brings a smile to my face

["Zenko Klapko Jr." <covertcodeop1 gmail com>]

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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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