[PD] PD ON UBUNTU 10.04 BUG REPORT

[Markus Demmel]

With some cameras you can switch the Priority. I do that with guvcview
(-o when running pd).

On 21.01.2011 16:27, Ludwig Maes wrote:
> can you fix the framerate? or is the webcam built so that it waits for
> more light in low light conditions? (my webcams have higher framerate
> in daylight/ strong light source, then in dark conditions...)
> 
> On 21 January 2011 14:38, Markus Demmel <az at zankapfel.org> wrote:
>> Cheese uses the gstreamer-Backend, which provides access to several
>> video-input interfaces afaik and PD uses v4l2/v4l. Right now, i can't
>> tell for sure which application uses v4l but have you tried with
>> luvcview and used some parameters to get more information on the webcam?
>> Or is the picture fine and fast, but the rest of the PC lags? What
>> Vendor string do you get, when you type in glxinfo? (Or did you install
>> the proprietary nvidia-drivers?)
>>
>> Also could you provide a basic example patch? Or try this one here:
>> http://az.zankapfel.org/?p=72
>>
>> mrks
>>
>> On 21.01.2011 13:47, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
>>> Yeah, sure, I tried cheese, and perfectly captures, even disable gdm
>>> to work only in text mode, the tried increasing the ram of the
>>> graphics and nothing, watch the video packages linux and everything
>>> was ok, and see if it was a matter of the graphics card, but my others
>>> computer was running, in which I had ubuntu 9.04 or os x, is strange.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards
>>>
>>> José
>>>
>>> 2011/1/21 Markus Demmel <az at zankapfel.org>:
>>>> Did you try another tool to use the webcam? e.g. luvcview / guvcview
>>>> What patch did you use?
>>>>
>>>> mrks
>>>>
>>>> On 21.01.2011 05:10, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
>>>>> I tested in i3 processor hp g42 and the same problem, maybe the
>>>>> graphic card....But not in 9.04.
>>>>>
>>>>> B r
>>>>>
>>>>> JOsé
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/1/21 Jose Luis Santorcuato <santorcuato76 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> Hello list, I do not know if this topic goes here, but comment as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I installed ubuntu 10.04 (I updated the packages) and the new version
>>>>>> of pd (0.42.5) on a computer intel core 2 duo, 4 gb ram and processor
>>>>>> 2.4, nvidia G210 card (256 ram), library PiDiP and  Gem went very
>>>>>> slowly using a webcam ISLIM Genius compatible with Linux, Win, and
>>>>>> Mac, Also i installed  in an intel atom hp mini 1000 (intel atom
>>>>>> processor), on a celeron with 1 gb and a mac osx 10.6, and had no
>>>>>> problems, but Lucid latency was terrible, I tried uninstalling the
>>>>>> NVIDIA card and still the same, I went to ubuntu 9.04 (without the
>>>>>> card) and it worked perfect  ...Why? I dont know...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> José
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>> http://comunicacionnativa.blogspot.com/
>>>>>> http://www.myspace.com/santorcuato
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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