Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Mauricio Henriquez <buhochileno@gmail.com>]

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On 09/04/2011 10:07 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Mauricio Henriquez wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Not sure if is the right place to ask since this device use a gspca driver
>> and not sure if that driver is related to uvc or not, if not please point
>> me to the right place...
>>      
> Looks right to me, and I hope that someone has more direct knowledge about
> your camera, which I do not. I do have a couple of questions, however, and
> a comment.
>
>    
>> Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
>> list this info related to the device:
>>
>> Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
>> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>
>>   idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>    idProduct          0x1528
>>    bcdDevice            1.00
>>    iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
>>    iProduct                2 General Image Devic
>>    iSerial                 0
>> ...
>>
>> Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
>> device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
>> make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:
>>
>> This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE)
>> xinerama 0: 1600x900+0+0
>> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
>> /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
>> v4l2: oops: select timeout
>>
>> ..or doing:
>> xawtv -c /dev/video1 -nodga -novm -norandr -noxv -noxv-video
>>
>> I get:
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
>> v4l2: oops: select timeout
>> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
>> libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>> vlc, cheese, etc give me similar "Timeout" related messages...
>>      
> The comment:
>
> Perhaps a good thing to try would be the nice, simple, basic program svv,
> which you can get from the website of Jean-Francois Moine. Some of these
> other things do not always work. Especially I have had trouble with xawtv,
> though the xawtv people may have fixed a lot of problems while I was not
> watching them.
>    
yeap, I try it, same kind of mesages...
> The question:
>
> Is this a dual-mode camera which is also supposed to have still camera
> capabilities? If so, you might be interested in contacting the Gphoto
> project. I just searched for it there, and it does not seem to be listed.
>    
yeap a dual-mode camera...
> I assume that the specialists on the spca cameras will step forward. I
> am not one of them, as I said. Good luck.
>
> Theodore Kilgore
>    
Thanks!

Mauricio


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Mauricio R. Henriquez Schott
Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación
Universidad Austral de Chile - Sede Puerto Montt
Los Pinos S/N, Balneario de Pelluco, Puerto Montt - Chile
Tel: 65-487440
Fax: 65-277156
mail: mauriciohenriquez@uach.cl


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