Comments on: XBOX Live Vision Camera in Ubuntu

By: jason

jason — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:43:27 +0000

mjpg streamer isn’t supported by amd64. Any help?

By: LiamM

LiamM — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:20:56 +0000

Hey Eric. if you tried

sudo rmmod uvcvideo
sudo modprobe uvcvideo

with no change then it may be the version of uvcvideo on your system. Mine worked out of the box but it looks like some people need to upgrade so try this.

install svn

sudo apt-get install svn

download the latest version ov uvcvideo

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk

move to the new folder

cd ./trunk

edit the Makefile

gedit ./Makefile

and change

INSTALL_MOD_DIR := usb/media

INSTALL_MOD_DIR := kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo

save your changes

compile the driver

make

then install

make install

Now reboot and walk through the steps in the article again.

Let me know if this helps or not

By: eric

eric — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:25:30 +0000

Same here

My error message: ERROR OPENING V4L INTERFACE: NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY

and when I checked in /dev/video* wow there is none!! where I can find it?

By: h0ju

h0ju — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:25:23 +0000

Same probs, modprobe isnt finding the cam. dont know why.

dev/video*: No such file or directory

By: DANR

DANR — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:48:55 +0000

I have the same problem as Aaron. When I type ls /dev/video*, I get ”cannot access no such file or directory”

By: LiamM

LiamM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:55:48 +0000

if you run ls /dev/video* What do you get back?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:14:18 +0000

i got an error when i was trying to open the command after installing the package. this is what the terminal said to me:
aaron@aaron-desktop:~$ mjpg_streamer -i “input_uvc.so -d /dev/video0 -f 15 -r 640×480″ -o “output_http.so -p 8080 -w ./”
MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
i: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video0
i: Desired Resolution: 640 x 480
i: Frames Per Second.: 15
i: Format…………: MJPEG
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory
Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
i: init_VideoIn failed

also. i’d like to point out that my inital check with the command “lsmod |grep uvcvideo” read something like this:
aaron@aaron-desktop:~$ lsmod |grep uvcvideo
uvcvideo 58116 0
compat_ioctl32 2304 1 uvcvideo
videodev 29440 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15492 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common 18304 2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore 146028 3 uvcvideo,ohci_hcd

note the very last line. i also tried the fix at the bottom, but it didn’t work. i’m in desperate need of a cam! need help plz!

thanks btw, you’ve gotten me further than anything else i’ve tried so far