Re: [M560x-driver-devel] Skype and Ekiga result with m5602-gspca[s5k83a sensor]

[Erik A. <eri...@gm...>]

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 Lukáš Karas wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've got some strange results with skype and the s5k83a sensor (gspca).
>> With non gspca driver and livecam, image looks good but in black and
>> white, and don't work with skype
>>
>> With gspca one, I've got this result with skype:
>> http://etbuddies.free.fr/skype.png
>> With some kind of luminosity, I can see in background the webcam image,
>> but there's a lot of green lines disturbing all. Sometimes, all is green
>> like in capture
> 
> Hi Jos
> 
> Skype has bug in S_FMT ioctl and don't support m5602 pixelformat (bayer)! This 
> combination produce your green screen. You have to use libv4l with Skype. 
> For more information see these wiki pages: 
> 
> http://m560x-driver.wiki.sourceforge.net/libv4l
> http://m560x-driver.wiki.sourceforge.net/libv4l+Ubuntu+Intrepid
> 
> By the way, how do you made screenshot of Skype? I know neither tool for 
> create screenshot of Xvideo applications...
> 
>> With gspca and Ekiga, the image looks nice, but very dark
>> http://etbuddies.free.fr/Capture-Ekiga.png
> 
> You have to set gain and brightness to highter values in darkness. Own driver 
> don't support auto brightness correction.
> You can use my utility v4lctrl for this.
> http://www.karry.wz.cz/download/v4lctrl-0.2.3.tar.gz
> 
> Regards, Lukas

What about bumping the default brightness or is it too lighting
dependent to really matter?

Regards,
Erik

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