How to test if USB Camera is working with Cheese
on GNU / Linux
I just bought an USB Camera (my notebook doesn't include an
embedded camera). The camera is some infamous brand chineese name
Eilondo
and on the camera all that is written is
SUPER USB2.0 1.3
mega pixel
I bought exactly this camera because I was said by the shop
reseller that the camera works without any driver installations on
Windows XP and
Windows Vista
On my
Debian Squeeze GNU / Linux it was detected in
dmesg without any troubles, here is how the camera got
detected in my
kernel log :
[25385.734932] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 4
[25388.905049] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 5 [25389.050753] usb 2-1: New USB device found,
idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0102 [25389.050757] usb 2-1: New USB
device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [25389.050760] usb
2-1: Product: USB2.0 Camera [25389.050762] usb 2-1: Manufacturer:
Etron Technology, Inc. [25389.050936] usb 2-1: configuration #1
chosen from 1 choice [25389.056056] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device
USB2.0 Camera (1e4e:0102) [25389.058242] uvcvideo: UVC non
compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[25389.059113] input: USB2.0 Camera as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input26
I was troubled by the message
uvcvideo: UVC non compliance -
GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround. , and hence
looked for an application to test if the camera can recored
properly.
While checking in packages available in
Software Center , I
found a plenty of programs under the search keyword
Camera
I however decided to test it using just one application
Cheese -
A tool to take pictures and videos from your
webcam which I've seen to be quite popular among Liunx
users.
Cheese is part of GNOME Desktop, so that was another reason I
decided to give it a try. I was pleasently surprised about how good
these tiny but functional proggie is.
Cheese has capabilities to take pictures, a consequential
photos take up, as well as create Video movies.
The program has support to apply
12 Effects / (Masks) to add
some fun to the pictures or video snapshots.
Probably the best thing about Cheese is its simplistic interface,
which for me personally is a main criterion to evaluate a program
quality ;).