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  1. Bug #352765
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Comment 1 for bug 352765

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kriekske (kriekske) wrote : Re: webcam and v4l2

I've the same problem.
In Hardy my webcam Acer Crystal Eye worked out of the box but it doensn't work in Jaunty.

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 5986:0102 Acer, Inc Crystal Eye webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

In multimediasystems the parameters are:

plugin: video for linux 2 (v4l2)
pipeline: v4l2src device="dev/video0"