Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga forgets video settings

[Gunther Furtado <gunzera0 yahoo com br>]

Carsten Maass escreveu:
> Hello Gunther,
>
> Gunther Furtado schrieb:
> > > > > > Well, I am running ekiga on a Debian Lenny System with KDE 3.5 on an
> > > > > > Athlon XP 1.8MHz on a SiS board and a logitech quickcam express (QC-usb
> > > > > > driver). The settings I am trying to keep ar those under the video tab
> > > > > > (brightness, white balance, contrast and saturation) but every time I
> > > > > > switch off the web cam viewing those values are reset to default. Is
> > > > > > there a way to keep those?
> > > > > That's your driver that resets settings...
> > > > Is there a way around it? I could not make gspca driver to work with my webcam.
> > > Two ways :
> > >
> > > 1) First possibility  : fix the driver
> > > 2) Second possibility : save the settings and restore them through ekiga
> > > (you will need to contribute some code there)
> > > --
> > Sorry! I do not have the knowledge to try it, not even nearly. anybody else?
>
> there is a tool called qcset in the qc-usb-utils package. You can run it
> with the approprite parameters prior to starting ekiga.

You can also use the command:

$ qcset /dev/video1 keepsettings=y

and the values are stored

> Greetings,
> Carsten.

Cheers,
--
Gunther Furtado
gunzera0 yahoo com br
Curitiba - PR - Brasil