zbarcam can not open video device

[Ferry Toth]

After starting I get:

I use a Logitech Quickcam Chat camera that works fine with other applications (like Skype).
Got Kubuntu Lucid.

By the way it works well with my Debian Squeeze with a different kind of Logitech camera.

Error message reported:

ferry@ferry-quad:~$ zbarcam
WARNING: no compatible input to output format
...trying again with output disabled
ERROR: zbar processor in zbar_processor_init():
    unsupported request: no compatible image format

Is there any camera configuration data that can help solve the problem?

Ferry

[Herczeg Zsolt (herczegzsolt)]

Same problem, same error on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

My camera is a Genius VideoCam Messenger
Cheese is works fine with it.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Please check whether this is fixed with the Ubuntu 11.04 beta, which has updated zbar to use libv4l instead of the (obsolete) v4l1 API.

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