Motion - Support Question 2007x 04x 03x 000305

Logitech QuickCam Sphere MP gives me only pictures at 176x144

Question

Hello everyone, i got a new Logitech QuickCam Sphere MP and after hours of compiling and testing i finally got some pictures. But only at a size of 176x144 pixels. A little bit small for this cam.

After setting motion to debug i could see the following:

[1] Adjusting resolution from 640x480 to 176x144.

Why is motion adjusting the resolution to 176x144 ?

I compiled the latest motion snapshot (motion-20070402-051001). And the latest uvc snapshot.

./configure and make didn't report errors.

It would be great if somebody can help me on getting larger from this cam!

Thanks in advance

Starting motion detection : motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_image"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_snapshot"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_mpeg"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_timelapse"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_query"
[0] Motion running in setup mode.
[0] Thread 1 is from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Thread 1 is device: /dev/video0 input 8
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 4208
[1] Thread started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "USB Video Class device"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:07.2"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera", type 0x00000002, status 00000000
[1] - CAMERA
[1] Device doesn't support VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG)
[1] 1: YUYV (Uncompressed)
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.8 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Test palette YUYV (640x480)
[1] Adjusting resolution from 640x480 to 176x144.
[1] Using palette YUYV (176x144) bytesperlines 2816 sizeimage 50688 colorspace 00000008
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255

Environment

Motion version: 3.2.7
ffmpeg version:  
Libraries: ffmpeg,
Server OS: Debian, Kernel 2.6.18-4-686

-- KarstenScholz - 03 Apr 2007

Follow Up

To Which USB port have you plugged your webcam , 1.0 / 1.1 or 2.0 ?

Motion adjust the size because the driver specify that requested size is not correct and give back to motion the supported size. Not sure what can be your problem but i guess that you don't have your camera connected to USB 2.0 port.

-- AngelCarpintero - 03 Apr 2007

Answer

This issue is not related to motion but driver and USB interface.

-- AngelCarpintero - 10 May 2008
Topic revision: r3 - 10 May 2008, AngelCarpintero
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