How can I get my wireless webcam to work?
- by hellocatfood
I recently bought this wireless webcam. I'm having trouble getting it to work on Ubuntu 11.04.
I ran lsusb and got the folowing information about the device
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0416:a91a Winbond Electronics Corp.
I did a Google serach for teh device ID and this website informs me that it matches the LogiLink Wireless Webcam (so Maplin probably just rebranded this!). What this website states is that this device should work, which it doesn't.
The problem I'm facing is that I don't get any actual video being streamed or shown. The built in microphone works and, when running Cheese, when I press the camera button on the webcam itself the software recognises that the button is pressed.
On that note, when running cheese from the terminal with this webcam attached I get the following error
libv4l2: error getting pixformat: Invalid argument
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Input/output error
Any help is appreciated