Comments on: Acer Aspire 9303 WMSi Webcam – Ubuntu http://alandoyle.com/2007/08/01/acer-aspire-9303-wmsi-webcam-ubuntu/ Life, Linux and everything Open Source in between. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Alan Doyle http://alandoyle.com/2007/08/01/acer-aspire-9303-wmsi-webcam-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Alan Doyle Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:17:56 +0000 http://alandoyle.com/?p=145#comment-13 Different Wbecams have different video formats, e.g. the webcam in my Acer uses MJPG which is the default for luvcview. You could try to query valid video formats with luvcview -L Then try the different modes luvcview -f jpg -d /dev/video0 luvcview -f uyvy -d /dev/video0 luvcview -f yuv -d /dev/video0 Sometimes you need to reload the UVC driver between tries ... sudo rmmod uvcvideo sudo modprobe -i uvcvideo Different Wbecams have different video formats, e.g. the webcam in my Acer uses MJPG which is the default for luvcview. You could try to query valid video formats with

luvcview -L

Then try the different modes

luvcview -f jpg -d /dev/video0
luvcview -f uyvy -d /dev/video0
luvcview -f yuv -d /dev/video0

Sometimes you need to reload the UVC driver between tries …

sudo rmmod uvcvideo
sudo modprobe -i uvcvideo

]]> By: Rob http://alandoyle.com/2007/08/01/acer-aspire-9303-wmsi-webcam-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Rob Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:53:01 +0000 http://alandoyle.com/?p=145#comment-12 I followed your instructions on my Lenovo Y510, but I get the following error when running luvcview luvcview version 0.2.1 Video driver: x11 A window manager is available video /dev/video0 Unable to set format: 16. Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal Any thoughts? I followed your instructions on my Lenovo Y510, but I get the following error when running luvcview

luvcview version 0.2.1
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
video /dev/video0
Unable to set format: 16.
Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal

Any thoughts?

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