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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any application to control uvc parameters of a webcam ?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:52:19
Message-Id: CADPrc81h-PbrQLgzVEO2KD+r=yBW6VZw16ygXQ8RD5xDOKG5+g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any application to control uvc parameters of a webcam ? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> [14-06-17 00:40]:
3 >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
4 >> > Hi,
5 >> >
6 >> > is there any other application than guvcview be able to control the uvc parameters
7 >> > of a uvc camera (Logitech C920) while gstreamer is reading its device
8 >> > (/dev/video1) ?
9 >>
10 >> What parameters? Usually the v4l2src element in gstreamer is able to
11 >> change the video parameters (norm, brightness, hue, contrast, etc.)
12 >>
13 >> gst-inspect-1.0 v4l2src will tell you about all the possible
14 >> parameters that v4l2src can handle.
15 >>
16 >> Regards.
17 >> --
18 >> Canek Peláez Valdés
19 >> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
20 >> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
21 >>
22 >
23 >
24 > Hi Canek,
25 >
26 > ...yesno.
27 > Some aspects of the camera like brightness, focus, pan, tilt etc.
28 > are hardly set when not done interactively.
29 >
30 > So I need an application with sliders, knobs etc to tweak and tune
31 > such parameters while watching the stream...
32 >
33 > Is there one like that?
34
35 You can use cheese; it allows you to set brightness, constrast,
36 saturation and hue using sliders. Approximating those to the 32 bit
37 signed values that v4l2src uses should be easy.
38
39 Regards.
40 --
41 Canek Peláez Valdés
42 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
43 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México