WebCam - SPCA50x drivers

[max2950]

Hey you did a great job !
I have a cheap webcam and it is working on the wl500 !

Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver spca5xx
Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Pixart PAC207BCA
Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:5480] Camera type GBRG 
Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered

However, i tested it with palantir, and after sometime running the wl500 runs out of memory....

[max2950]

I tested again your driver together with palantir 2.6, and it seems to work OK with this version. However i had it only running about 1 hour, i'll give it a long test run soon...

[JFK]

This drivers are exactly, what I needed! I wanted to try some cheaper webcams with my WL-500gP, and now it seems, that there are a lot of cheap cameras I can buy and use!

Btw, I have one question:
does maximum resolution of taken images depend on webcam (hardware) or depend on this drivers? I tried spca5xx with borrowed Soledo webcam (Model NO 300S-F, 0x04fc 0x0561 EzCam III spca561a
http://www.soledo.cz/?produkty=kamer...ukt=webcam-led
) and realized, that it has the same maximum resolution (352x288) like max2950's webcam above, instead of having 640x480:

Dec 25 20:39:44 kernel: drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120

So, is resolution question of drivers?

Does anybody knows?

Regards, JFK

[max2950]

In most of the cases the hardware is limiting the resolution, but sometimes it might be the drivers to...

[toze]

I'm trying this is my wl-500gx but it dosen't work. What are the steps involved in compiling this driver? What do i need in my router?

Toze

[max2950]

You need olegs firmware and an usb drive where you copy the driver. In addition you need to create a post-mount script that loads the driver after boot.

[Modrak]

Could you recompile the LE driver (the regular one from the first post crashes whole wl500gX when I try to use spcaserv or palantir) to support vendor/device 0x045c/0x6001 - Genius QuickCam NB please ?
I currently don't have a computer to setup the proper workspace to crosscompile it myself.

[admin@router root]$ insmod spca5xx.o 
Using spca5xx.o
[admin@router root]$ dmesg 
...
usb.c: registered new driver spca5xx
drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB Genius VideoCAM NB found. SONIX sn9c102 + Tas 5110 
drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:5480] Camera type SN9C 
drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered
[admin@router root]$ wget http://ibook.mdr.local/~ondra/palantir 
Connecting to 10.20.30.3[10.20.30.3]:80
palantir             100% |*****************************|   229 KB    00:00 ETA
[admin@router root]$ chmod 755 palantir 
[admin@router root]$ ./palantir -d /dev/video 
Mar 12 17:04:53 [config] Default config file `/usr/local/share/palantir/palantir.conf' not found
Mar 12 17:04:53 [main] -- palantir 2.6 starting --
Mar 12 17:04:53 [main] Definitions for 0 devices found
Mar 12 17:04:53 [main] No serial port specified
Mar 12 17:04:53 [main] No named pipe specified
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Card:   Genius VideoCAM NB (/dev/video)
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Capabilities:   1 (capture )
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Size:   (160x120)-(352x288)
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Channel no. 0 ('SN9C102')       tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 65535
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] brightness: 32768  hue: 0  colour: 0
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] contrast: 32768  whiteness: 0
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] depth: (24)  palette: 4
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Actual capture box is 320x240 (requested 320x240)
Mar 12 17:04:54 [video] Video buffer size: 2457616, frames: 2
Mar 12 17:04:54 [audio] Can't open audio device /dev/dsp
Mar 12 17:04:54 [main] Audio initialization failed. Audio channel will be disabled
Mar 12 17:04:54 [main] Listening on port 3000
Mar 12 17:04:54 [main] Control queue timeout set to 30 s
Connection closed by foreign host.

And another try with spcaserv

[admin@router root]$ chmod 755 spcaserv 
[admin@router root]$ ./spcaserv -d /dev/video -f jpg -s 320x240
 size width: 320 height: 240 
 Spcaview version: 1.1.4 date: 27:11:2005 (C) mxhaard@magic.fr 
video /dev/video 
Camera found: Genius VideoCAM NB 
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=32768 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=0depth=24 palette=4
Bridge found: SN9C102 
is_spca SPCA505 
is_spca SPCA506 
is_spca SPCA501 
is_spca SPCA508 
is_spca SPCA504 
is_spca SPCA500 
is_spca SPCA504B 
is_spca SPCA533 
is_spca SPCA504C 
is_spca SPCA561 
is_spca SPCA536 
is_spca SN9C102 
StreamId: 5  Camera
try palette 21 depth 8
Couldnt set palette first try 21 
Damned second try fail 
try palette 15 depth 12
Available  palette 15 
try palette 4 depth 24
Available  palette 4 
try palette 3 depth 16
Available  palette 3 
try palette 5 depth 32
Available  palette 5 
probe size in 
skip size 640 x 480
skip size 384 x 288
Available Resolutions width 352  heigth 288 
Available Resolutions width 320  heigth 240 
Available Resolutions width 192  heigth 144 
Available Resolutions width 176  heigth 144 
Available Resolutions width 160  heigth 120 
 Format asked 15 check 8
VIDIOCSPICT brightnes=32768 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=32768 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
 grabbing method default MMAP asked 
VIDIOCGMBUF size 2457616  frames 2  offets[0]=0 offsets[1]=1228808
Connection closed by foreign host.