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Re: connecting an USB video cam to the BQ E4.5 -- how to view the video stream?

 

El día jueves, enero 25, 2018 a las 08:36:33p. m. +0100, Christoph Schulz escribió:

> Maybe QtMultimedia detects the webcam and you can use it from there?
> 
> $ cat >cameras.qml <<EOT
> import QtQuick 2.4
> import QtMultimedia 5.6
> 
> ListView {
>   model: QtMultimedia.availableCameras
>   delegate: Text {
>     text: "id: " + modelData.id + ", name: " + modelData.displayName
>   }
> }
> EOT
> 
> $ cat >$HOME/.local/share/applications/cameras.desktop <<EOT
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Camera List
> Exec=qmlscene $HOME/cameras.qml
> Type=Application
> X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
> EOT
> 
> Then refresh your app scope and start it from there and see if there
> are more than the two default cameras (front/back).
> 
> My E4.5's output:
> 
>   id: undefined, name: Camera 0 Back facing
>   id: undefined, name: Camera 1 Front facing
> 
> Hope this helps.

Thanks, Christoph, for your hint. It shows only the two plug'ed in cams
when the USB one is attached too.

Perhaps some permission/confined problem.

	matthias

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