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Gildas Bazin wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Friday 29 August 2003 18:52, Bill Eldridge wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Running vlc.exe -vvv dshow://vdev="Genius VideoCAM":adev="ESS Maestro"
--volume 3
I get device recognition on both audio and video, but an input error
with "can't open video"
The device is a USB video cam, computer is laptop with Win2K
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According to your log, the problem is that your webcam produces an image
format that we don't recognize. </pre>
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It's my head, at least my kids recognize it :()<br>
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<pre wrap="">It isn't that surprising because I don't
yet do clever stuff like providing a list of formats our plugin can handle
so right now the capture filter only tries its default format and if it
doesn't work we bail out.
I'll try to improve that today so tonight's daily build has the fix
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.videolan.org/~videolan/build/">www.videolan.org/~videolan/build/</a>)
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Thanks. Tell me if there's anything I can change on my end to test it.<br>
(well, I'm not set up to compile the Windows version right now, so I
guess<br>
that's kind of useless)<br>
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Bill<br>
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--
Gildas
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