[PLUG] program for taking a image from webcam

[Suraj Swami]

Hi,

I am trying to write a code to take a snap from the webcam and store it in .
But I am not able to do the basic reading of images. I get all zero value.

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/videodev.h>

#define FILE "/dev/video0"


int main(void)
{
  int fd = open(FILE, O_RDONLY), f;
  struct video_capability cap;
  struct video_window win;
  struct video_picture vpic;

  unsigned char *buffer, *src;
  int bpp = 24, r, g, b;
  unsigned int i, src_depth;

  if (fd < 0) {
    perror(FILE);
    exit(1);
  }

  if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGCAP, &cap) < 0) {
    perror("VIDIOGCAP");
    fprintf(stderr, "(" FILE " not a video4linux device?)\n");
    close(fd);
    exit(1);
  }

  if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGWIN, &win) < 0) {
    perror("VIDIOCGWIN");
    close(fd);
    exit(1);
  }

  if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGPICT, &vpic) < 0) {
    perror("VIDIOCGPICT");
    close(fd);
    exit(1);
  }

// Set depth and palette ------------------------------------------------
this could be a major source of error. I get  a error msg here. and if I
tried putting palette = 8 and depth = 16 it will work but I get all zero
values in the image.



vpic.depth=24;
vpic.palette=VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB24;

if(ioctl(fd, VIDIOCSPICT, &vpic)==-1) {


  fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find a supported capture format.\n");
  return -1;
}


buffer = malloc(win.width * win.height * bpp);
  if (!buffer) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
    exit(1);
  }


read(fd, buffer, win.width * win.height * bpp);


 for (i = 0; i < win.width * win.height; i++) {

 printf("\t %d,%d,%d",*src++,*src++,*src++);

 }

  close(fd);
}



I even get this code from net to get the present configuration and test
different pallete and I get this output.
(http://www.raphnet.net/programmation/v4l_tools/)

root at robot-laptop:~/webcam/v4l_tools-0.1/v4l_dump# ./v4l_dump
Using device /dev/video0
struct video_capability
{
name='Laptop Integrated Webcam'
channels=1
 audios=0
maxwidth=1600
maxheight=1200
 minwidth=48
minheight=32
}
VIDIOCGCHAN: Invalid argument
struct video_picture
{
brightness=29491
hue=0
colour=41942
 contrast=36408
whiteness=21845
depth=0
 palette=0
}


root at robot-laptop:~/webcam/v4l_tools-0.1/v4l_probe_palettes#
./v4l_probe_palettes
Using device /dev/video0
Supported palettes:

VIDEO_PALETTE_GREY: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_HI240: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB565: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB24: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB32: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB555: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV422: MISMATCH. NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV411: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_RAW: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV422P: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV411P: NO
VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV420P: NO


I even get this code from net to test different pallete and I get this
output.

How do I fix this problem.

Thank you.

Regards,
Suraj Swami