[PD] Trying to figure out why pix_video isn't working

[jim]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 02:18 -0800, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
> And charge the pd gem with LD command ...... in console....
> Cheers from Chile
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> José
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> 2009/11/6 Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>
>         hi jim,
>         
>         I don't know what that error message is.
>         
>         you should get the latest gem from svn and compile with
>         libv4l-devel
>         or libv4l-dev, i don't know how it's called in jaunty.
>         
>         that seems to be solving many people's problems including my
>         own.
>         there is a bunch of posts about it.
>         
>         best,
>         
>         J
>         
>         
>         On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:52 AM, jim <cinetron at passport.ca>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         > For some reason pix_video isn't working for me. I've tried a
>         few
>         > different webcams, all of which work in other programs. I'm
>         on a 64 bit
>         > Linux Jaunty machine and using
>         >
>         > Pd version 0.42.4.
>         > GEM: ver: 0.91.3 'tigital'
>         >
>         > I keep getting this error in the console when I select a
>         camera using a
>         > device message
>         >
>         > VDIOCGCHAN: Invalid argument
>         >
>         > Any thoughts how to track the problem down and get it
>         working?
>         > Thanks,
>         >
>         > Jim

Thanks everyone. Yes it looks like I must have been using v4l2. This
solved my problem

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so

Jim
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