USB Webcam not supported?

[bforpc]

Hi, the usb webcam is detected correctly (with 5 devices) and lsusb shows this (the first one is the cam):

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:6366 Microdia
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c312 Logitech, Inc. DeLuxe 250 Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

ls /dev/video* /dev/video0 /dev/video1 /dev/video10 /dev/video11 /dev/video12

I can -if motioneye ist off - make pictures from the cam, with fswebcam correctly.

But motion(eye) do not get any video from the cam. I have tested with all 5 devices.

This is the syslog when starting motioneye:

Aug  7 08:48:42 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: hello! this is motionEye server 0.40
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] config_camera: Processing camera config file camera-1.conf
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "vid_control_params"
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 4.1.1 Started
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen motion: [16303752:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (WRN)
Aug  7 08:48:46 schuppen rsyslogd: action 'action-6-builtin:omfile' resumed (module 'builtin:omfile') [v8.1901.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ]
Aug  7 08:48:47 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_set_mmap: Error starting stream. VIDIOC_STREAMON: Protocol error
Aug  7 08:48:48 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: cleanup started
Aug  7 08:48:48 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: wsswitch started
Aug  7 08:48:48 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: tasks started
Aug  7 08:48:48 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: mjpg client garbage collector started
Aug  7 08:48:48 schuppen meyectl[638]:     INFO: server started
Aug  7 08:48:57 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [ERR] [ALL] motion_init: Error capturing first image
Aug  7 08:48:57 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [ERR] [ALL] mlp_capture: Video device fatal error - Closing video device
Aug  7 08:49:00 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [WRN] [ALL] mlp_retry: Retrying until successful connection with camera
Aug  7 08:49:00 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_select_input: Error selecting input 0 VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Device or resource busy
Aug  7 08:49:00 schuppen motion: [1:ml1:Camera1] [ERR] [ALL] mlp_capture: Video device fatal error - Closing video device

Whats wrong here?

Bfo

[CRImier]

Hi! Any chance it's a cheap webcam? These often have incompatibilities with i.e. Linux. It's weird that you get 5 devices, too - there only needs to be one. Does fswebcam work with only one of these devices, or all of them?

[jasaw]

@bforpc Some /dev/video* device implements hardware accelerated video/image compressor, some implements camera (video/image capture). To find out what each /dev/video implements, run `for d in /dev/video ; do echo $d ; v4l2-ctl --device=$d -D --list-formats ; echo '===============' ; done You can replace--list-formatswith--all` to give you more information about a particular v4l2 interface.

[bforpc]

Hi, @CRImier : No it was a very well usb webcam. fswebcam has worked with all devices @jasaw : i have send the webcam back and use now a ip based cam, what is working very well with motioneye. So the Problem is solved, but in a other matter ;-) Thanks all of you. bfo