"Old" Labtec webcam does not work with luciole

Bug #372739 reported by NicoInattendu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Luciole
Fix Released
Medium
NicoInattendu
0.7
Fix Released
Medium
NicoInattendu

Bug Description

Luciole : 0.7.0
OS : Jaunty Jackalope / Hardy Heron
Hardware : Labtec webcam
On Jaunty Jackalop the labtec webcam is detected but with incorrect properties :
"
Webcam driver : /dev/video1
Résolution utilisée par la webcam : 384x256
Driver de webcam utilisé : v4lsrc
"
The resolution shall be 640x480 and driver v4l2src according info given by hal and cheese :
Cheese detection : v4l2src name=video_source device=/dev/video1 ! capsfilter name=capsfilter caps=video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1;video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! identity

HALl info :
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_8a2_noserial_video4linux'
  access_control.file = '/dev/video1' (string)
  access_control.type = 'video4linux' (string)
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-acl-tool --add-device'} (string list)
  info.callouts.remove = {'hal-acl-tool --remove-device'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'video4linux', 'video4linux.video_capture', 'access_control'} (string list)
  info.category = 'video4linux' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_8a2_noserial' (string)
  info.product = 'USB Camera (046d:08a2)' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'video4linux' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_8a2_noserial_video4linux' (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/video1' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'video4linux' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-2/video4linux/video1' (string)
  video4linux.device = '/dev/video1' (string)
  video4linux.version = '2' (string)

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NicoInattendu (nico-inattendu) wrote :

Look on webcam detection to get property video4linux.version.

V4l2src shall be used for Intrepid ( video4linux.version ='2') , but v4lsrc for hardy ( video4linux.version ='2')

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NicoInattendu (nico-inattendu) wrote :

Error in previous message :
Replace by
V4l2src shall be used for Intrepid ( video4linux.version ='2') , but v4lsrc for hardy ( video4linux.version ='1')

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