Philips SPC 600 NCP

Philips SPC 600 NCP

[Curtis Schroeder]

I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance, because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not compatible with Linux.  I've
downloaded and installed gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but
it reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
utility I can run and report the results back to this list that would
help get this situation corrected?

Curt


      
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Philips saa6752hs mpeg encoder recommendation

[Brian Thompson]

Hello all,

I'd like to do some mpeg encoder testing on linux with the Philips
saa6752hs mpeg encoder but I'm having a difficult time finding
PCI cards that use the chip.

If anyone has any recommendations on cards that make use of
the Philips saa6752hs chip and associated linux driver, I'd really
appreciate the info. Especially cards that are still available new
or readily available used.

Thanks,
Brian


Curtis Schroeder wrote:
> I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance, because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not compatible with Linux.  I've
> downloaded and installed gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but
> it reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
> utility I can run and report the results back to this list that would
> help get this situation corrected?
>
> Curt
>
>
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Re: Philips saa6752hs mpeg encoder recommendation

[Dmitri Belimov]

Hi Brian

> Hello all,
> 
> I'd like to do some mpeg encoder testing on linux with the Philips
> saa6752hs mpeg encoder but I'm having a difficult time finding
> PCI cards that use the chip.
> 
> If anyone has any recommendations on cards that make use of
> the Philips saa6752hs chip and associated linux driver, I'd really
> appreciate the info. Especially cards that are still available new
> or readily available used.

Our TV tuners has hardware MPEG encoder saa6752hs:
BeholdTV M6
BeholdTV M63
BeholdTV M6 Extra

We made support this cards in Linux with Hans Verkuil (big thanks). 
See saa7134-empress.c and saa6752hs.c source code (in media/video/saa7134 folder).

And bad news. You can't buy our card outside of Russia.

With my best regards, Dmitry.

> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> 
> Curtis Schroeder wrote:
> > I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance,
> > because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web
> > cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not
> > compatible with Linux.  I've downloaded and installed
> > gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but it
> > reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
> > utility I can run and report the results back to this list that
> > would help get this situation corrected?
> >
> > Curt
> >
> >
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Re: Philips saa6752hs mpeg encoder recommendation

[hermann pitton]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 10:43 +0900 schrieb Dmitri Belimov:
> Hi Brian
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'd like to do some mpeg encoder testing on linux with the Philips
> > saa6752hs mpeg encoder but I'm having a difficult time finding
> > PCI cards that use the chip.
> > 
> > If anyone has any recommendations on cards that make use of
> > the Philips saa6752hs chip and associated linux driver, I'd really
> > appreciate the info. Especially cards that are still available new
> > or readily available used.
> 
> Our TV tuners has hardware MPEG encoder saa6752hs:
> BeholdTV M6
> BeholdTV M63
> BeholdTV M6 Extra

I was just about to point to you.

> We made support this cards in Linux with Hans Verkuil (big thanks). 
> See saa7134-empress.c and saa6752hs.c source code (in media/video/saa7134 folder).
> 
> And bad news. You can't buy our card outside of Russia.

Hmm, assuming you have still some amount of chips, why you don't try to
sell global like all others do after all the work you had to get the
mess sorted?

Given that nvidia and others have GPU hardware acceleration for HDTV
more or less ready, even with GNU/Linux on current cheap supermarket
PCs, what to wait for?

The remaining market is _now_ and not in any future. 

> With my best regards, Dmitry.

Best as well, get them out.

Cheers,
Hermann


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Re: Philips SPC 600 NCP

[Jean-Francois Moine]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:47:49 -0800 (PST)
Curtis Schroeder <cstarjewel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance,
> because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web
> cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not
> compatible with Linux.  I've downloaded and installed
> gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but it
> reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
> utility I can run and report the results back to this list that would
> help get this situation corrected?

Hello Curt,

I don't know which driver you used. If it is the sn9c102, please,
regenerate, removing this driver from the config.

Also, as this webcam has not be tested yet, I'd be glad to know if it
works. If it does not, may you send me the last kernel messages after
pluging the webcam (do a grep on 'gspca' and 'sonixj'), and the
image.dat generated by my program svv (if any - do 'svv -rg').

Regards.

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Re: Philips SPC 600 NCP

[Curtis Schroeder]

Although I am an experienced Solaris middle-ware programmer and have some limited driver experience on VxWorks, I am new to the world of Linux drivers.  I'll likely need a bit of hand-holding on this one.

First, here is the command stream I got from the Ubuntu forums in trying to get my new web cam working.  At this point it is well known that web cam support in 8.10 is broken, hence the need to compile an install a new copy of gspca.


sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) &&
wget http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/archive/tip.tar.bz2 &&
tar xf tip.tar.bz2 &&
cd gspca-* &&
make &&
sudo make install &&
sudo depmod -ae $(uname -r)

Here is the output from dmesg:
[22620.920030] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[22621.111879] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[22621.620524] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[22621.645354] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[22621.667744] sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C1xx PC Camera Controllers v1:1.47pre49
[22621.670466] usb 3-2: SN9C105 PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid 0x0471:0x0327)
[22621.851468] usb 3-2: No supported image sensor detected for this bridge
[22621.852729] usbcore: registered new interface driver sn9c102

So, you are correct that it is trying to use the sn9c102 driver.  Could you provide me with a little more information on how to remove this driver from the gspca config before rebuilding it?  Do I comment it out in the v4l/.config file or change the "=m" to something else?

I've downloaded svv.c, but I'm having trouble linking it.  It appears to need library /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so, but the -l directive prepends "lib" onto the lib name, so the linker doesn't find it.  What is the appropriate gcc syntax to link svv.c with this lib?  Or is there a bug in the make install such that the lib was not named correctly?

Thanks for your help,

Curt




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From: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
To: Curtis Schroeder <cstarjewel@yahoo.com>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:07:03 AM
Subject: Re: Philips SPC 600 NCP

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:47:49 -0800 (PST)
Curtis Schroeder <cstarjewel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance,
> because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web
> cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not
> compatible with Linux.  I've downloaded and installed
> gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but it
> reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
> utility I can run and report the results back to this list that would
> help get this situation corrected?

Hello Curt,

I don't know which driver you used. If it is the sn9c102, please,
regenerate, removing this driver from the config.

Also, as this webcam has not be tested yet, I'd be glad to know if it
works. If it does not, may you send me the last kernel messages after
pluging the webcam (do a grep on 'gspca' and 'sonixj'), and the
image.dat generated by my program svv (if any - do 'svv -rg').

Regards.

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Re: Philips SPC 600 NCP

[Curtis Schroeder]

OK, after adding the following symbolic link in /usr/lib I was able to compile svv.c:
ln -s libv4lconvert.so.0 libv4lconvert.so

dmesg output:

[ 9802.740030] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 9802.907910] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 9803.551890] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 9803.664328] sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C1xx PC Camera Controllers v1:1.47pre49
[ 9803.674162] usb 3-2: SN9C105 PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid 0x0471:0x0327)
[ 9803.841084] usb 3-2: No supported image sensor detected for this bridge
[ 9803.842270] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 9803.847120] usbcore: registered new interface driver sn9c102

svv -rg output:

Cannot identify '/dev/video0': 2, No such file or directory

I am using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu 8.10.

lsusb output:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0471:0327 Philips WebCam SPC 6000 NC (WebCam w/ mic)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:c225 Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 046d:c221 Logitech, Inc. G15 Keyboard / Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04f3:0212 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c223 Logitech, Inc. G15 Keyboard / USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Please provide me with more information on how I should disable the sn9c102 driver.

Thank you for your help,

Curt




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From: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
To: Curtis Schroeder <cstarjewel@yahoo.com>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:07:03 AM
Subject: Re: Philips SPC 600 NCP

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:47:49 -0800 (PST)
Curtis Schroeder <cstarjewel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I recently picked up a Philips SPC 600 NC web cam on clearance,
> because I had read in the Ekiga documentation that most Philips web
> cams were compatible.  Evidently the SPC 600 NC currently is not
> compatible with Linux.  I've downloaded and installed
> gspca-4d0827823ebc in my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 installation, but it
> reports in dmesg that it does not recognize the sensor.  Is there a
> utility I can run and report the results back to this list that would
> help get this situation corrected?

Hello Curt,

I don't know which driver you used. If it is the sn9c102, please,
regenerate, removing this driver from the config.

Also, as this webcam has not be tested yet, I'd be glad to know if it
works. If it does not, may you send me the last kernel messages after
pluging the webcam (do a grep on 'gspca' and 'sonixj'), and the
image.dat generated by my program svv (if any - do 'svv -rg').

Regards.

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Jef        |        http://moinejf.free.fr/



      
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