Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF

I feel dumb.

I picked up a Logitech Orbit AF webcam, having seen it  listed as working well in Linux. The pan/tilt controls also looked amusing.

I do this periodically. I decide I want to make some sort of video for youtube, pick up a webcam, it fails to work in spectacular ways, and then I give up. As it stands, all I have shared are time-lapse videos. n webcams * m computers * o pieces of software * p drivers ensures that I'm entertained for a while.

Anyway, I tried this new one, half of the apps I used to test it weren't working well. It's always a crapshoot if cheese initializes properly, and I think the rest had some v4l/v4l2 problem. When I finally got it to the point that it seemed like it should work, I couldn't record at more than 5 fps.

 It turns out the autoexposure settings can limit the framerate. Oops.

I still can't get pan/tilt working: 

ioctl querycontrol error: Invalid argument
Set Pan down error
ioctl querycontrol error: Invalid argument
Set Tilt down error
  • Posted: 2009-09-02 20:47
  • Author: cory
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