Palantir 2.6

[Nabla]

Hi,
I'm very happy for quickcam messenger driver, I've tried to use it, but have some problems. If someone can help, it would be great (I'm linux noob).
My process:

insmod videodev.o
insmod quickcam.o

mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0

all ok, now camera connected
in syslog.log:

Jan 29 20:06:23 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 6
Jan 29 20:06:23 kernel: quickcam: QuickCam USB camera found (driver version QuickCam Messenger/Communicate USB $Date: 2004/12/30 10:00:00 $)
Jan 29 20:06:23 kernel: quickcam: Kernel:2.4.20 bus:1 class:FF subclass:FF vendor:046D product:08F0
Jan 29 20:06:23 kernel: quickcam: Sensor VV6450 detected
Jan 29 20:06:23 kernel: quickcam: Registered device: /dev/video0

look good for me

now:

[admin@asus palantir]$ /tmp/palantir/qcset -i
Name          : Logitech QuickCam USB
Type          : capture
Channels      : 1
Audio devices : 0
Maxsize       : 324,248
Minsize       : 160,120

Overlay coords: 1532713819,1532713819
Capture size  : 324,248
Chromakey     : 1532713819
Flags         :

Channel       : 0
Name          : Camera
Tuners        : 0
Flags         :
Type          : camera
Norm          : 0

Brightness    : 32768
Hue           : 32768
Color         : 32768
Contrast      : 32768
Whiteness     : 32768
Depth         : 24
Palette       : RGB888 packed into 24bit words.

ok, so start palantir with default palantir-mips.conf
(changed only VideoDevice /dev/video0
and FrameSize 324x248)
Palantir says:

[admin@asus palantir]$ /tmp/palantir/palantir -C palantir2.conf
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] -- palantir 2.6 starting --
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] Definitions for 1 devices found
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] No serial port specified
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] No named pipe specified
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Card:   Logitech QuickCam USB (/dev/video0)
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Capabilities:   1 (capture )
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Size:   (160x120)-(324x248)
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Channel no. 0 ('Camera')        tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 65535
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] brightness: 32768  hue: 32768  colour: 32768
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] contrast: 32768  whiteness: 32768
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] depth: (24)  palette: 4
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Actual capture box is 324x248 (requested 324x248)
Jan 29 20:11:39 [video] Video buffer size: 321408, frames: 1
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] Starting device thread
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] Listening on port 3000
Jan 29 20:11:39 [main] Control queue timeout set to 30 s
Jan 29 20:11:48 [main] 10.1.1.5:4525 #0: connection accepted, spawning server.
Jan 29 20:11:48 [main] 1 client(s) connected
Jan 29 20:11:48 [main] Capture thread started
Jan 29 20:11:48 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: video server started
Jan 29 20:11:48 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: requested URL `/?mode=single'
Jan 29 20:11:48 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Jan 29 20:11:48 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: streaming mode: single-shot, open loop
Jan 29 20:11:49 [video] CSYNC: Invalid exchange
Jan 29 20:11:50 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: connection terminated
Jan 29 20:11:50 [http] 10.1.1.5:4525: wrote 1 [+0] frames (1971 bytes) in 2.01 s - 0.50 f/s, 0.96 kB/s, 1.92 kB/f
Jan 29 20:11:50 [main] Capture thread stopped - 1 frames in 2.57 s (0.39 f/s)
Jan 29 20:11:50 [main] 0 client(s) connected

produced black frame in browser and in syslog.log:

Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (77 < 18025) id=456D
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (73 < 19308) id=4771
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (69 < 18545) id=4A70
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (65 < 18805) id=4D74
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (61 < 20083) id=4975
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (57 < 20345) id=4A77
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (53 < 20606) id=4C7E
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (49 < 20352) id=4F7D
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (45 < 21381) id=517F
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (41 < 21889) id=558A
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (37 < 22406) id=5586
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: missing chunk contents (33 < 21895) id=5685
Jan 29 20:13:22 kernel: quickcam: isoc URB error -79, resubmitting

What does it mean and what I can do with it? Thanks for all information.

[dyonisos]

Hi

Did you tried Smixer to view and alter the mixer settings ??

Greets
Wlanman

hallo,

ich bitte um Eure Hilfe:

ich betreibe eine Philips Vesta Pro WebCam am WL-500gP unter Oleg 1927-7f.
usbaudio ist installiert und ok laut dmesg.

ich sehe im IE das Video, aber ohne Ton.
Was mache ich falsch?
Muss der Waveserver ausgeschaltet sein?
Benötige ich eine zusätzliche Soundkarte?

den Mixer /dev/sound/mixer 14,0 habe ich mit SMixer hochgedreht.
/dev/sound/dsp 14,3 ist vorhanden.

Danke für Eure Hilfe!
Dyonisos

[arch]

The audio problem with Palantir 2.6 is well known. The creator of Palantir is working on version 2.7 which, hopefully, will solve the problem. In particular, a goal is to have two-way audio plus video on the wl500gx in spite of its limited cpu.

[dyonisos]

The audio problem with Palantir 2.6 is well known. The creator of Palantir is working on version 2.7 which, hopefully, will solve the problem. In particular, a goal is to have two-way audio plus video on the wl500gx in spite of its limited cpu.

Thanks, arch.

With Palantir 2.6. i get a 1 sec audio and 3sec pause no audio) continously.

The wl-500gP built in AV Streamer delivers audio via /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer, which is working.
Why does audio not work with the built in Streamer or Internet Explorer with the video stream working fine?

Do you know whether madplay is a working alternative?
Does Palantir support an alarming system like Webcam motion detection via USB speakers?

Many thanks in advance,
dyonisos

[arch]

I suggest that you contact the Palantir site www.fastpath.it I suspect that you will be told 2.7 will fix the problems.

As I was told about a year ago, there are two issues. One, something has to be fixed in Palantir to make audio work through the USB in the wl500gx. Two, something else has to be changed in Palantir to get two-audio. Rather than dig into these questions, I just decided to wait for 2.7.

Also, 2.7 will support IPv6.

[dyonisos]

I suggest that you contact the Palantir site www.fastpath.it I suspect that you will be told 2.7 will fix the problems.

As I was told about a year ago, there are two issues. One, something has to be fixed in Palantir to make audio work through the USB in the wl500gx. Two, something else has to be changed in Palantir to get two-audio. Rather than dig into these questions, I just decided to wait for 2.7.

Also, 2.7 will support IPv6.

Is there a way/application to only stream audio from an USB microphone connected to the WL-500gP over the WAN to a client (which client/application)? Thanks for any ideas.

[arch]

I suspect that there is, but I just have not looked into it. There are certainly many discussions here about going the other way, i.e,, audio to the wl500. Sorry I cannot help you.

[dyonisos]

I suspect that there is, but I just have not looked into it. There are certainly many discussions here about going the other way, i.e,, audio to the wl500. Sorry I cannot help you.

Hi arch,

I did some tests on Ubuntu 6.10 and found that Palantir 2.6 with attached webcam&mic is working perfectly both video and audio from the beginning.

Why does WlanMan compiled Palantir 2.6 audio not work (only 1 sec bursts...) on the wl500gP?

Any idea?

[arch]

Does the audio work in both directions? I carried out a similar experiment a couple of years ago, and the audio worked only in one direction. In particular, I had the Palantir server on my Linux box (450Mhz) and the client on my Windows laptop. Video was faster, of course, but the audio was uni-directional. Apparently, this audio problem is a bug in the current Palantir.

[dyonisos]

Does the audio work in both directions? I carried out a similar experiment a couple of years ago, and the audio worked only in one direction. In particular, I had the Palantir server on my Linux box (450Mhz) and the client on my Windows laptop. Video was faster, of course, but the audio was uni-directional. Apparently, this audio problem is a bug in the current Palantir.

Audio only in half duplex from server to client working. But new Palantir is to come out soon with audio fixed.

[georgij]

Palantir2.7 is here.

[dovocom]

Hi Georgij !

so far I have palantir, motion and spcacat working with the spca5xx drivers but would like to check out version 2.7 as it looks promising.

unfortunately I don't have the right linux skills (when it comes to compiling stuff) so no idea what to do with it..

Any idea what to do with the files published on their website?

From their website: MIPS binary package (server only) - MIPS precompiled binaries for the v2.7 server, for the ASUS WL-500g and similar devices.

any help in the right direction?

Thanks,

Don

UPDATE: Found out that Winrar can do a lot, got it running now but still prefer Motion so far...

[mistraller]

Hi Georgij !

so far I have palantir, motion and spcacat working with the spca5xx drivers but would like to check out version 2.7 as it looks promising.

unfortunately I don't have the right linux skills (when it comes to compiling stuff) so no idea what to do with it..

Any idea what to do with the files published on their website?

From their website: MIPS binary package (server only) - MIPS precompiled binaries for the v2.7 server, for the ASUS WL-500g and similar devices.

any help in the right direction?

Thanks,

Don

UPDATE: Found out that Winrar can do a lot, got it running now but still prefer Motion so far...

What is the official way to install a MIPS precompiled package? I run palantir 2.6 for a while now, but the text watermark is exactly what I was missing.

[dovocom]

Hi Mistraller, as I mentioned in my previous post, don't know a lot about linux except for being a good tutorial reader..:-)

I installed 2.7 the same way as palantir 2.6 . What I basically did was I g-unzipped the files after copying it to the router using wget. then I followed the normal process for2.6 as described on various forums (insmod etc).

There's quite some informaiton about this topic on www.macsat.com.

PS, did you see the latest version of motion, build in webserver for both mjpeg stream but also for an on the fly config page !


hope this helps?

Don

[mistraller]

Hi Mistraller, as I mentioned in my previous post, don't know a lot about linux except for being a good tutorial reader..:-)

I installed 2.7 the same way as palantir 2.6 . What I basically did was I g-unzipped the files after copying it to the router using wget. then I followed the normal process for2.6 as described on various forums (insmod etc).

There's quite some informaiton about this topic on www.macsat.com.

PS, did you see the latest version of motion, build in webserver for both mjpeg stream but also for an on the fly config page !


hope this helps?

Don

My palantir 2.6 was installed by ipkg install palantir

I did not see the latest motion.
I use palantir for grabbing pictures to store on disk, and to have a webcam page in my website. Sometimes I use it for streams.

The reason I choose palantir was that it took less processor power, because it will only start capturing after a connection to the service is made.

If motion can give me also a good still image webcam server, with the same low processor usage, it would be a good alternative. Maybe I'l look at it. (But I hope someone will make a palantir2.7.ipk package...