Questions tagged [webcam]
Questions related to webcam setup/configuration. Please mention your model/make of webcam when asking questions.
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how to fix unresponsive mic on webcam for ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I bought a webcam and when I use zoom or cheese the video shows up but the mic isn't working. It is unresponsive and can't find any signs of life other than seeing mics listed in dropdown lists. The ...
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Iriun Webcam Does not work on Ubuntu 20.04
Iriun webcam was working great in elementary os based on ubuntu 18.04 (with setting if_names=0 in grub) but I had to switch to ubuntu 20.04. In ubuntu 20.04 as soon as I lauch the client it shows a ...
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Can I take an image of the person trying to log in after 3 login attempts fail?
Is there any way to take an image after 3 login attempts fail? After that I want to block all ports and shut down system so the person can't access the system using a bootable device.
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Webcam not detected in Ubuntu 20.04, Samsung 350V5C. Anyone knows how to solve this?
As the title says, the integrated webcam isn't detected in my installation of Ubuntu 20.04 (tested on Pop! OS, LMDE, Mint and Linux MX, all had the same issue) on a Samsung 350V5C (from 2012 or so). I ...
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Logitech C270 has no video output on Ubuntu 18.04
My Logitech C270 webcam no longer works on my desktop, presumably after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04.
I've listed some of my system info and logs below. Can anyone provide any advice? Thanks!
System ...
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XFCE Audio Mixer Glitching (pavucontrol) - Ubuntu 20.04
I'm having trouble using a microphone, webcam and even listening to audios.
For example WhatsApp web version does not output the audios you send me using Mozilla Firefox.
And in the audio mixer there ...
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Webcam not found on Thinkpad E550 (ubuntu 14.04)
I got a new laptop Thinkpad E550 and at first the touchpad was not working so I updated the kernel but now the webcam is not working.
Cheese is giving the error "device not found"
$ lsusb
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Logitech Quickcam Express not working with most programs
I'm trying to get this old webcam working with Ubuntu. Cheese says "No Device Found". The Zoom application only shows "camera" as a video device, but no picture. The Camorama program is able to get a ...
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Webcam not displaying even though it is detected - Kubuntu 20.04
I have recently updated my Kubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04. In the previous version, everything seemed to work well. After the upgrade, every time I try to use the webcam the light turns on but no output ...
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Integrated webcam in Dell laptop does not work on 18.04
My integrated laptop webcam does not work on Ubuntu 18.04. I have a DELL Latitude E7240.
Can anybody help me troubleshoot the issue?
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Toggle webcam from command line? [duplicate]
I am trying to figure out if its possible to -- from within the command-line -- enable/disable the webcam, with a command that can be ran through a keybind? My laptop, a Thinkpad T450 doesn't have a ...
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Webcam not working on Dell Latitude 7400 and Ubuntu 20.04
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Dell Latitude 7400.
The integrated webcam does not work.
Is there anything i can do to fix it?
lsusb -v output:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:5538 Realtek Semiconductor ...
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webcam no longer detected after updating Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
For a while, my microphone wasn't working, but my webcam was. Now I have the reverse problem. Evidently, trying solutions which worked for other users isn't going to cut it, since I have already ...
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v4l2 : how can I enable software trigger?
I am working on jetson TX2, with a FSM-IMX304M camera and I use V4L2 API.
I would like to use software trigger, but I don't know how to use it and haven't found anything by searching.
I need to ...
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Webcam not working in 20.04
I am using a pretty old laptop and installed Ubuntu 20.04
The only problem that I had is the Webcam that is detected in Skype/Cheese as "Webcam SCD1100" but just can show a black screen.
I'...
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dell 3446 ubuntu 18.04 LTS integted web cam not working,any driver for that?
Driver for the integrated webcam
I've recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my laptop. Previously it was Windows. Earlier my laptop's webcam was working fine.
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Integrated Webcam not detected on an Alienware M17x R3 for Ubuntu 20.04
I have an Alienware M17x R3. I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 and I know the webcam was working before. I pressed FN + F9 Which is shown as a camera key but the camera is not detected on any apps (...
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WebCam not detected on Acer Aspire 3 in Kubuntu
I've been using Kubuntu for over a year now and I've been quite satisfied with it but when I updated from 19.04 to 19.10 all of a sudden the webcam isn't detected.
I've checked out many other posts ...
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My computer isn't detecting a webcam at all
So, I'm trying to figure out how to get a webcam to work on my computer. The LED on the camera is turning on when I plug it in, but that's the only sign I can see of it working. When I run ls -ltr /...
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MacBook Pro camera not working on Ubuntu 18.04
I've tried the solution on this website https://medium.com/@racter/how-to-install-ubuntu-16-04-on-a-retina-macbook-11-2-74e7779c0e47:
$ cd /etc/local/src
$ git clone https://github.com/patjak/...
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HP Truevision HD built-in webcam not working in ubuntu 18.04
I have a HP Notebook-15-ac603tu and after shifting to ubuntu from windows, the camera stopped working.
I have run the following commands with output:
lsusb :
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux ...
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Transmit recorded video as it was captured from webcam
Is it possible to handle the webcam output and substitute it with a record video (using Ubuntu)? For example, I would like to registered a video and then use it as it was the video recorded by the ...
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How can I fix a microphone that gets disabled during a call?
I have a Logitech C270 webcam that I use for video meetings that has been giving me issues for the past 6 months or so. It was working fine on Mint 18.1 for well over a year. After upgrading to Ubuntu ...
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Internal webcam not working on surface book 2 new ubuntu install
When I try to use skype it just says webcam not found.
I found a guys post that said he used this command
git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
cd media_build
./build
sudo make install
but ...
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Microdia webcam not seen on Dell Laptop
Using Xubuntu 18.04 on a Dell laptop that does not have a web camera.
I bought an external webcam that advertised as being compatible with ubuntu. Plugged in, lsusb sees it, but it will not show an ...
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Video calling (grandparents)
I need an extremely simple solution for video calling. I'm planning to use an old laptop with webcam. My goal is that my grandparents only need to turn on the machine and it would automatically start ...
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Camera mirrored on xps 15 with ubuntu 20.04
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell xps 15 7590, with a webcam uvcvideo. My issue is that the camera is mirrored. I tried a few things such as this and this but none of it worked. The camera error seems ...
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Recognizing regular camera instead of infrared
I've installed Ubuntu Linux (latest version as of a couple weeks ago) on a Dell laptop, and instead of getting a normal camera image of myself in apps like Skype, I'm getting what looks like an ...
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Logitch 9000 with Ubuntu
I have a Logitech 9000 Pro which works fine with Wi.10 and Win.7 and also works with both OSs in Skype. However, I now wish to use it with Ubuntu, which I downloaded a couple of days ago (I think vers....
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Ubuntu 16.04 webcam no sound in applications
I have 16.04 fully updated. I have a creative webcam. The video works fine but there is no sound recording in Skype, Google Hangouts, Cheese etc. Hangouts will work if I change from default microphone ...
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Webcam not recoginized on 18.04
Webcam is a SJCam SJ4000 and worked fine on Artful.
It is recognized as mass storage when that option is chosen on the cam.
I get nothing when trying cam mode on Bionic.
lsusb output without cam ...
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Making Hercules Classic Link web camera work with Ubuntu 19.10
I've got myself a simple webcam today, and it didn't work correctly on Ubuntu 19.10. It blinked its LED and went silent, and in Cheese or Skype the camera does not work, although it's listed in lsusb ...
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Webcam problem with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I'm having trouble with my integrated webcam. While I open the webcam software cheese, the webcam shows a black image.
The output of lsusb is:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e004 Qualcomm Atheros ...
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Could I use my webcam as a barcode reader?
One day I read an article about reading barcode using my webcam in Ubuntu 12.04 by a some software which I don't remember now.
Can anybody help?
What software could help me by reading a barcode ...
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Redirect two webcam to a virtual camera using ffmpeg
I've used
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
to create a virtual camera #2. And I used
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -s 1280x720 -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video2
to redirect ...
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Cannot install macbook webcam driver on Ubuntu 20.04
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a Macbook 12" (early 2016, 1.1GHz), and the camera is not working. I tried to follow the steps:
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install curl xzcat cpio
git clone ...
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WebCam (easycamera) lenovo yoga pro2 dont work
I have a lenovo lenovo yoga pro 2 with a built-in easycamera that worked well in 18.04, but with the upgrade to 20.04, it just stop working, disappeared completely.
some lists from my system
lsusb
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Trying to install iSight webcam; following instructions but "module bcd_pci" not found - Google doesn't help
I'm a recently convert to Linux.
Running Ubuntu 19.04 on an older Macbook 4.1 or 4.4, white model, September 2008.
It has an iSight camera which is the only thing that didn't work out of the box.
I'...
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Newbie on linux. Does my webcam have a microphone?
I was able to get a Logitech web cam to work with Cheese, after reading some helpful tips on the site. But how do we know if the "microphone" is attached or working? OR if there is even one on the ...
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How to get v4l2 loopback device to be recognized? [duplicate]
I am trying to set up a greenscreen effect for a video conference in Google Meet, which runs in a web browser, in this case Google Chrome. As an initial test I have set up a V4L2 loopback device and ...
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integrated webcam issues lenovo t430u ubuntu 12.10
I am fairly new user to Ubuntu. I have a fresh install of 64 bit Ubuntu 12.10 with the gnome remix. The laptop is Lenovo thinkpad T430u. The issue is my integrated laptop webcam is not working with ...
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Start a Virtualbox VM with the webcam on
There are many questions and instructions out there about how to add a webcam to a VM, under Ubuntu host OS (in particular, with Win 10 guest OS, but this is likely irrelevant).
How can I use my ...
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Laptop onboard camera doesn't work and flooded dmesg
I have an issue with my internal camera, it doesn't work anymore. I used it a few times without any issue before, but recently it stopped working. I disabled uvcvideo as it prevented some apps using ...
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Disabling Webcam by blacklisting driver - what are the consequences?
I am a new Ubuntu user, and for security reasons I would like to disable my webcam unless I need it.
The most appealing solution to do so seems to blacklist the webcam driver, as outlined here.
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External/Internal webcam not working in Ubuntu 16.04
first of all, it is not a hardware problem, they're working well with Windows 10.
And I don't have a Fn combination to activate webcam.
A month ago, I've moved Ubuntu to SSD drive I have. I could ...
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How to use windows phone as a webcam in Ubuntu 14.04?
I want to use windows phone rear camera as a webcam for my opencv app in Ubuntu. Is their any app or method?
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Gstream video stream error
I'm trying to stream webcam video from one computer to another with low or zero latency.
I used the following command.
Sender:
gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! video/x-raw,width=640,height=480 ! x264enc ! ...
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Logitech C920 microphone suddenly stopped working only on my Ubuntu 18.04
I have exactly the same question than in the post "Logitech c920 microphone not working in Ubuntu 18.04": my Logitech c920 webcam microphone suddenly stopped working on my ubuntu 18.04
Microphone (...
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Setting camera for cheese from command line
I've got cheese (3.18.1) running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. However, when I run it, there are no preferences.
In theory, when you run it, the camera can be set via preferences, as described here:
Where&#...
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webcam problem in ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Today i bought a WEBCAM but it didn't work with my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
webcam model is = ZENITH
Os : Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
i tried cheese but it says No Device found.
These are the results of lsusb in ...
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