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camorama package

When using Camorama how to save picture?

Asked by Rodney

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and my web camera does not work in 12.04. I worked fine with "Cheese" in 10.04 however Cheese does not seem to work with 12.04. I have now tried Camoramo and it kind of works. I can get a picture on the monitor but when I click "take a picture" I get the comment that it can not create the directory "Webcam_Pictures". I opened the terminal and created the directory and checked to make sure it was there. I still get the same error that it cannot create the directory. Any advice or input as to what I need to do or what I'm doing wrong? The picture on the monitor appears quite okay.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo dmidecode -t 1; lsusb

Thanks

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#2

# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: Gateway
 Product Name: E-4650
 Version: 4000796
 Serial Number: 0028069547
 UUID: A096C905-DD1D-B211-8000-F345517F7EB2
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 Wireless Adapter
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 V1.0
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:7504 Hewlett-Packard Printing Support
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 090c:71b3 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.)
rodney3@rodney3-desktop:~$

Here is the requested info

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libv4l/development
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install v4l-utils

Reboot then try the webcam

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#4

I did the operations requested in the above by actionparsnip and rebooted. The results are the same, picture shows up fine on the monitor but, when I click on "save Picture" I get the comment that it is unable to create the directory "~/Webcam_Pictures". I have created that directory with mkdir command and it does exist and shows up when I type ls in the terminal.

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Rodney (rciwan) said : 		#5

I have given up on this particular program and installed Kamerca from the software depository. It seems to be working fine with this version of Ubuntu. Since I now have a program that lets me use my webcam with Ubuntu 12.04 I'll marke this as solved. Thanks for the time and help you have given me on this question. Rodney