Inspiron 1525 Webcam

[nick43137]

I was wondering how I get my webcam to work with BT4.

Thanks!

[xorred]

Most webcams work with uvc. http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

[secure_it]

For your kind information.those drivers are already in BT4 as they comes by default with 2.6.26 & above.

[Citruspers]

Out of curiosity: why do you want to use your webcam on a pentesting distro? Do you want to videochat with relatives (not really backtrack's aim), or do you have a motion detection app to protect your laptop? (which would actually be awesome at cons, just imagine a siren going off as soon as someone nears it)

[goon123]

hallo,

i would like to use my webcam and chat with someone on the one interface, while playing around with the other wlan interface, thats why I would like to get my cam to work.

I've exactly the same problem. It is said, that above Kernel 2.6.26 the UVC driver is nativly.
But on my backtrack 4 pre final it is not working.
any help is apreciated

thx

[drgr33n]

can you post all the relevant info like dmesg outputs ETC.

To test try

mplayer tv://

[imported_digitelle]

This doesn't work.

mplayer tv://

However, specifying fps does.

mplayer -fps ## tv://

Just replace ## with however many Frames Per Second you want.
If you're not root, then type sudo before mplayer.

I also don't think that mplayer is designed for video chat, but, correct me if I'm wrong.
Don't know why anyone would want to video chat in BT, but w/e, who am I to judge?