Mplayer bug with logitech web quickcam camera

[Mickey]

1. Plug in the logitech web camera express (older version).

2. Check if the camera is talking to the kernel it is:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:0840 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express

3. Launch ekiga(gnome meeting) it works.

4. Launching mplayer, kmplayer or any other frontend on mplayer. As kmplayer in this case following commands:

mplayer -wid 58720493 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop -vop pp=lb -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -tv noaudio:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:input=0:width=32:height=32 -slave
-nocache -quiet 'tv://' -identify

Resulting Bug:
Causes the camera to show green, pink, red dots etc. It looks like heat movement instead of the object on screen.

Resulting Error Output:
(As long as in play mode error will scroll (from command line or kmplayer:

ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argument
ioctl mcapture failed: Invalid argumen

Temporary solution:

6. Switching kmplayer to another frontend such as xine fixes the issue.

[Mickey (michael.z)]

Forgot to add that the bug is in both feisty and gutsy gibbons. Latest CD versions display it too.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 RC or later?

[Mickey (michael.z)]

The camera is so old I did not try it again it poorly works at all.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!