{"id":561,"date":"2006-06-22T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:26:51","slug":"gerd-knorrs-webcam-input-parameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2006\/06\/22\/gerd-knorrs-webcam-input-parameter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerd Knorr&#8217;s webcam: input parameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding out what the <tt>input<\/tt> parameter (which defaults to <tt>composite1<\/tt>, which didn&#8217;t work for my Creative Labs&#8217; Webcam NX)  should be was a little hard, so I&#8217;ll make a note of it for myself here: Urs Kradofler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismo.ethz.ch\/linux\/webcam.html\">&#8220;WebCam under Linux&#8221;<\/a> page says&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&hellip;] do not use the option &#8220;input = composite1&#8221; as given in the man pages; enter the command v4lctl list to view a list of possibilities; in my case [the command <tt>input = Webcam<\/tt> was] ok.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have multiple cameras, you can specify the device for <tt>v4lctl<\/tt> to look at by using the <tt>-c<\/tt> parameter (e.g. <tt>v4lctl -c \/dev\/video1 list<\/tt>).<\/p>\n<p>For my Creative Lab&#8217;s NX the input parameter was to be <tt>ZC301-2<\/tt> and, for my Philips Toucam II, <tt>Camera<\/tt>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding out what the input parameter (which defaults to composite1, which didn&#8217;t work for my Creative Labs&#8217; Webcam NX) should be was a little hard, so I&#8217;ll make a note of it for myself here: Urs Kradofler&#8217;s &#8220;WebCam under Linux&#8221; page says&#8230; [&hellip;] do not use the option &#8220;input = composite1&#8221; as given in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}