Some work towards webcam sending

[kjir]

Bugs here, logs would be better to send them to my e-mail (otherwise the thread becomes too long).
Consider that most of the bugs are already known to me

[kjir]

I forgot to mention that this is going to work only in linux, support for other platforms will be difficult to implement (or at least test) for me because I only have linux boxes around 

[jandem]

You are doing a very nice job here

I wrote the rest of the webcam code, so let me know if you have any questions. Btw, is it still lagging for you? I found out that decoding is much faster if I start a separate process for it, so I wonder if it's caused by Python's Global Interpreter Lock or something similar, not sure though..

[kjir]

You are doing a very nice job here

Thank you

I wrote the rest of the webcam code, so let me know if you have any questions. Btw, is it still lagging for you? I found out that decoding is much faster if I start a separate process for it, so I wonder if it's caused by Python's Global Interpreter Lock or something similar, not sure though..

What I noticed is that the image is not always top quality, but that a big problem, IMHO. Of course user reports will tell if it's too slow or not, for now I'm concentrating on making things work

[C10uD]

ow.. good work!



if only my webcam and gstreamer worked in Intrepid Beta i could try it................... lol

[Respawner]

ow.. good work!



if only my webcam and gstreamer worked in Intrepid Beta i could try it................... lol

I'm not alone with this problem I see

[fabioamd87]

ati user?

[Respawner]

ati user?

Yes exactly.

[fabioamd87]

well, I'm another intrepid user that cant use the webcam 

[C10uD]

how this would be related to ati? O_o i get webcam working in other apps only preloading a library (like /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so) but this is not emesene's case

[Respawner]

Did you try using Cheese for example? (which use v4l2) It makes my computer crash

[C10uD]

ok, with today updates everything should be fine again..unfortunately seems that this webcam patch is taking the first device available, that is, in my case, a tv card :p

now i must figure out how to let it take /dev/video1 instead

[fabioamd87]

seem that also my webcam now work... but is veeeeery slow, damn ati when relase a xorg 1.4 compatible driver???

[kjir]

now i must figure out how to let it take /dev/video1 instead

If you didn't figure it out on your own yet here is how to do it:

• Open WebcamDevice.py
• Find the line self.source = gst.element_factory_make("v4l2src")
• After that line add this: self.source.set_property("device", "/dev/video1")
• Enjoy!

[C10uD]

ups, sorry! yes i got that working after googling a bit but i forgot to post a reply thanks anyway for your response!


another problem i had and then i solved was blank window (and blank frames sent).. since my webcam resolution is 352x288 i edited the line

caps = gst.Caps("video/x-raw-yuv, width=320, height=240, bpp=24, depth=24, framerate=30/1") with my own resolution even if i don't know if this is a good fix :p


the problem now is the socket seem autodisconnecting too fast without a good reason :s --edit: because of this, i don't know yet if frames are received correctly but atm i haven't received a positive answer yet :p