xawtv + USB webcam = Device or resource busy

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fberger · Post by **fberger** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:38 am

Hi,

I just plugged in my new webcam:

$ lsusb 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0ac8:3450 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.

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$ dmesg | grep video
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Vimicro USB Camera (Altair) (0ac8:3450)

It works fine in Skype, but in xawtv I can not access the camera:

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$ LC_ALL="C" xawtv -c /dev/video0 
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.34-ck)
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0xbf970484 [PAL_G,PAL_K,PAL_Nc,SECAM_B,SECAM_D,SECAM_G,SECAM_K,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0 [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=unknown): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x34524742 [BGR4];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x33524742 [BGR3];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x33424752 [RGB3];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x33524742 [BGR3];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x00000000 [....];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x34524742 [BGR4];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x59455247 [GREY];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x56595559 [YUYV];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x50323234 [422P];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT(type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;fmt.pix.width=384;fmt.pix.height=288;fmt.pix.pixelformat=0x32315559 [YU12];fmt.pix.field=ANY;fmt.pix.bytesperline=0;fmt.pix.sizeimage=202752;fmt.pix.colorspace=SRGB;fmt.pix.priv=0): Device or resource busy
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)

To my knowledge, no other program is accessing the video device.

Any ideas where I can start to fix this?

Regards,

fberger