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mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by mrmajik45 »

Thats for windows :(
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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All right. I searched for your camera and issue and found some things worth looking at. Most were quite old so who knows what would work. But...

First: [HOW-TO] Upside-down image from UVC webcam <--Seems too complicated.

Next: UVC webcam picture upside down on Asus x71sl laptop <--Next to last post refers to:

Add the PPA (and surprisingly it's still maintained): v4l-utils Development

Good luck, and hope that helps.
mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by mrmajik45 »

Nope I added it, restarted and still nothing :(
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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I assume you need to apt install v4l-utils as well.
mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

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I did do that.
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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Okay. Now type v4l2-ctl --help-streaming and see if you can find anything for flipping the video.
mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by mrmajik45 »

Not that i see.
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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Try v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl vertical_flip=1 in the terminal, then test the camera.
mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by mrmajik45 »

Unknown control 'vertical_flip'
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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How about v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=rotate=180?
mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

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unknown control 'rotate'
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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Sorry. That's all I got.
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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mrmajik45 wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 8:45 pm
unknown control 'rotate'

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v4l2-ctl -c vertical_flip=0
v4l2-ctl -c vertical_flip=1
You need to use both of those.
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mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

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More unknown controls
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Re: Camera Upside-down

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mrmajik45 wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 12:27 am More unknown controls
Well, does v4l2-ctl --help not give you any clues? Or man v4l2-ctl?
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kukamuumuka

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by kukamuumuka »

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dmesg | grep video
modprobe xxxx_driver_name_xxx invert=1
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mrmajik45

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by mrmajik45 »

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[   20.758565] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20170531/video-364)
[   21.114119] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   21.174009] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC 1.3M WebCam (064e:a116)
[   21.194656] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 5 was not initialized!
[   21.194660] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 was not initialized!
[   21.194663] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 3 was not initialized!
[   21.194665] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!
[   21.194910] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[  136.094649] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 10 on unit 3: -110 (exp. 2).
[  136.391430] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 10 on unit 3: -32 (exp. 2).
[ 1376.555595] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
[ 1376.556239] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20170531/video-364)
[ 2088.045407] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20170531/video-364)
[ 2088.236298] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20170531/video-364)
[ 2563.888771] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
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[ 2972.089277] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
[ 3133.206651] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
[ 3365.391467] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
[ 3608.572524] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
[ 4024.780333] video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
I don't know the driver name
kukamuumuka

Re: Camera Upside-down

Post by kukamuumuka »

mrmajik45 wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 5:09 pm dmesg:

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[   20.758565] ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20170531/video-364)
[   21.114119] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   21.174009] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC 1.3M WebCam (064e:a116)
[   21.194656] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 5 was not initialized!
[   21.194660] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 4 was not initialized!
[   21.194663] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 3 was not initialized!
[   21.194665] uvcvideo 1-3:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!
[   21.194910] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
I don't know the driver name

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[   21.194910] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
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