venerdì 29 novembre 2013

raspberrypi con usb camera PAC7311 Trust WB-3300p

Camera connected to raspberrypi was detected
#lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 093a:2608 Pixart Imaging, Inc. PAC7311 Trust WB-3300p


but motion and uvccapture complained that they can't find /dev/video0 even if  I created the node:
mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 

Device can be found preloading v4l2convert
 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libv4l/v4l2convert.so motion [options here]

Had to install v4l-utils first

sudo apt-get install v4l-utils

venerdì 1 novembre 2013

Handbrake with ubuntu 13.10 saucy salamander

If you dare to install a snapshot:
sudo add-apt repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk