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Grant Sewell wrote: > I had problems using XawTV to view/capture from my webcam too (a Philips thing). > I found MPlayer worked much better - sure it didn't have a nice pretty interface > to it, and I had to fiddle around to get the settings, but at least it worked! > > Here's what I had to use in mplayer, in case it helps: > > $ mplayer -tv fps=30:noaudio:width=640:height=480:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video1 > tv:// I sudo to avoid this error: Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. $ sudo mplayer -tv fps=30:noaudio:width=320:height=240:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0 tv:// MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled SSE2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE Cannot find HOME directory. Playing tv://. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) TV detected! ;-) Selected driver: v4l name: Video 4 Linux input author: Alex Beregszaszi comment: under development Selected device: Logitech QuickCam USB Capabilites: capture Device type: 1 Supported sizes: 160x120 => 324x248 Inputs: 1 0: Camera: (tuner:0, norm:pal) Using input 'Camera' Selected input hasn't got a tuner! ioctl set picture failed: Invalid argument MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash. - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html