[Fwd: Getting a tascom webcam to work.]

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to get the following webcam to work, but it doesn't work in
mplayer and cheese only produces vertical coloured strips.

dmesg gives this
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
gspca: probing 17a1:0128
gspca: probe ok
usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=17a1, idProduct=0128
usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=32, Product=38, SerialNumber=0
usb 3-1: Product:  USB2.0 WebCam
usb 3-1: Manufacturer: TASCORP

Looking at lsmod, modules are loaded

gspca_t613             11904  0
gspca_main             21504  1 gspca_t613
videodev               32000  1 gspca_main
v4l1_compat            15876  1 videodev


Running Mplayer gived me the following errors

$  mplayer -fps 30 -tv
driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 tv://
MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
 author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski at zpr.uni-koeln.de>
 comment: first try, more to come ;-)
Selected device:  USB2.0 WebCam
 Capabilites:  video capture  read/write  streaming
 supported norms:
 inputs: 0 = t613;
 Current input: 0
 Current format: unknown (0x4745504a)
tv.c: norm_from_string(pal): Bogus norm parameter, setting default.
v4l2: ioctl enum norm failed: Invalid argument
Error: Cannot set norm!
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
v4l2: Cannot get fps
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
FPS forced to be 30.000  (ftime: 0.033).
Starting playback...
v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout ??% ??,?% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout  0%  0.0% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout  0%  0.0% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout  0%  0.0% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout  0%  0.0% 0 0

v4l2: select timeout  0%  0.0% 0 0

V:   0.0  26/ 26  1%  0%  0.0% 0 0


And the following appeared in my dmesg output
 gspca: usb_submit_urb [0] err -28
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: leak ed f6d26240 (#81) state 2


Any ideas, I'd be grateful to receive them,
Best regards
James