Comments on: [HOWTO] Setup Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera in Ubuntu

By: psychzzz

psychzzz — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:35:36 +0000

linux is wack: Yeah~ it works great in MS Windows … perhaps cause it’s a Microsoft product? Anyway, there are lots of webcams that works out of the box with Linux as well, this is just one of those that requires a bit of tweaking around.

By: Freelance Web Design

Freelance Web Design — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:45:58 +0000

Very cool. Great tutorial. Thanks.

By: linux is wack

linux is wack — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:55:05 +0000

ya real cool ubuntu, you wanna hook it up in windows? here is my tut for that
PLUG IT IN

By: PsyCHZZZ

PsyCHZZZ — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:19:23 +0000

Hi Tristan, apologies for the late reply… just wondering if you’ve solved the problem?

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:11:44 +0000

Hi I’m not able to get anything to load up when I enter sudo modprobe uvcvideo
Nothing happens at all can anyone help? I’m a noob at linux sorry guys.

By: Pebby

Pebby — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:47:56 +0000

Yeah, I tried playing with the framerate a bit - I assume it’s just a problem with Firefox, honestly. Using VLC (or another media player) works perfectly, in any case.

By: PsyCHZZZ

PsyCHZZZ — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:29:24 +0000

Hi Pebby… you’re most welcome.

I never had that problem but then again I didn’t stream it for long… just occasionally for 1 min or so… what is the framerate that you set in uvc_stream? Perhaps a different framerate might improve the stability?

Unfortunately, I gave the camera away already… so, I won’t be able to do any further testing on it.

Glad that the guide helped. ^.^ Cheers~

By: Pebby

Pebby — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:53:14 +0000

Hey PsyCHZZZ — much thanks for the guide. Followed it, and it works wonderfully on my xubuntu 7.10 machine. One thing I’ve noticed, and I assume this is just a failing in the uvc_stream application, is that I get varying quality connections. That is, sometimes the web browser seems to fail and stop streaming. Did you have this issue at all? It’s easy to fix, of course, by refreshing the page, but it’s an annoyance nonetheless.

Thanks again for the helpful guide!

By: PsyCHZZZ

PsyCHZZZ — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:49:44 +0000

Hi Jerry… just wondering do you happen to have more than 1 webcam connected to your linux box? The thing is because when you started uvc_stream with video0; it shows a motor-control option. There is no motor-control on the Live vision camera.

Another thing is that can you double check that you got all the V4L2 module loaded with modprobe (step 2) ?

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:30:41 +0000

went back and edited the make file but is staill get the same error

any ideas