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Hi

Have you read http://psha.org.ru/b/camview-emc.html ?

Also are you using 10.04 or 8.04, camunits does not work with 8.04.

regards

im using 10.04

yeah i saw that link, in the trouble shooting section he only mentions problems where the video stream is completely black, mine is sort-of working there is an image however it is scrambled




-edit- tried installing the vesa driver as mentioned in wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TroubleShooting section 5.2 but it didnt work either

one thing i am not 100% sure if i installed correctly is the debian repository, what i did is:

open system>administration>software sources
select the other software tab
pressed add... and wrote down "deb psha.org.ru/debian/ lucid contrib"

then i ran these commands in the terminal

wget -O- psha.org.ru/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

pt-get update


everything seemed to have worked fine however i am not sure if the above was the correct way to do it

Hi
Have another read when you can, he mentions precisely what you have, vertical lines.

Unfortunately I cannot get that page up again now, server must be down.

regards

thanks but didnt find anything - i still have that page open, the only vertical thing he mentions is:

convert.flip: Flip image in horozontal or/and vertical direction. Not very useful for V4L2 cameras since there is one in libv4l2. Vertical flip is very efficient and horizontal is pretty fast on RGB, BGR, … images with 24 bits per pixel. Horizontal flip is slow on Gray images (with 8 bpp).

haven't stop trying stuff cant get it to work

Its under the troubleshooting section, talks about trying vivi driver and mentions blank black screen( opengl) and vertical lines or stripes and their significance.

Frustratingly I cannot get the page up.

I had problems getting camview to work under 8.04, had to load the vesa driver and the software GL libraries, whereas it worked out of the box on 10.04.