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gobeav3rs297

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From: Portland Oregon

Registered: 2007-11-06

Posts: 60

Help with a Logitech QuickCam Connect E2500

Hi,

Does anyone this forum have a Logitech QuickCam Connect E2500 and is able to use it under archlinux?  I made the mistake of buying it a few months back for my sister's windows system since it was cheap but now she has converted to using linux at my suggestion and of course I can't seem to get the webcam working in Arch or Ubuntu. 

The kernels seems to detect the device and loaded the following modules:

gspca_zc3xx            48644  0
gspca_main             23332  1 gspca_zc3xx
videodev               36544  1 gspca_main
usbcore               150192  8 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,gspca_zc3xx,gspca_main,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

/dev/video0 and /dev/audio1 shows up, however when i go to try to capture the video and audio using VLC by running the following command:

$ vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-adev="/dev/audio1"

I get would get the error: [0xb7601aa8] v4l demux error: failed capturing new frame and the vlc window would be all green.

If you need more information I would be happy to provide, any help in getting this webcam to work would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks everyone

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Help with a Logitech QuickCam Connect E2500

Hello gobeav3rs297!

Did you try this?
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=456843

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gobeav3rs297

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From: Portland Oregon

Registered: 2007-11-06

Posts: 60

Re: Help with a Logitech QuickCam Connect E2500

djszapi,

thanks for the tip, it kind of work now.  I actually tried the export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so before but that just gave me green screen.

So now that the export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so i can get video output but i'm not capturing any audio at all, ie. not hearing my voice through the speaker.  Also i'm getting the following error

libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff

Thanks for all the help so far djszapi

-Vincent