[MPlayer-users] mplayer with webcam

Chittaranjan Mandal Chittaranjan.Mandal at cse.iitkgp.dhs.org
Thu Apr 10 15:08:48 CEST 2003


I got a Creative Webcam (usb) PD1011.
Can I use mplayer to view its capture?

I tried xawtv, but got some errors.

$ xawtv -c /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19-16mdk)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

$ ls -l /dev/video0
crw-------    1 chittaLocal sys       81,   0 Apr 10  2003 /dev/video0

/dev/video0 was created as: # mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
...
agpgart                31840   3  (autoclean)
i810_audio             21352   1
soundcore               3780   0  [i810_audio]
ac97_codec              9928   0  [i810_audio]
...
ov511                  68508   0  (unused)
i2c-core               15332   0  [ov511]
videodev                5792   0  [ov511]
...
usb-uhci               21676   0  (unused)
usbcore                58304   1  [ov511 usb-uhci]
...

Help!

--Chitta



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