upside down video in cheese
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Hmm... There's usually two screws holding it in place. It may well be installed upside down. If you're willing to undertake the challenge, crack open the monitor portion of the laptop (may require a heat gun) and flip it 180°.
no, its not installed upside down, i had a similar issue with windows and the camera had a weird driver you had to download to fix it. but turning it over will do the same thing, thanks
Huh... Hmm... Do you know the make and model of the camera?
There *may* be Linux drivers. I take it you're using Mint, so you should have 3rd party drivers enabled. Is there anything listed in there about it?
But, with the make and model of the camera we might be able to find you a driver and show you how to install it.
There *may* be Linux drivers. I take it you're using Mint, so you should have 3rd party drivers enabled. Is there anything listed in there about it?
But, with the make and model of the camera we might be able to find you a driver and show you how to install it.
thats the thing, i don't remember what the camera model was and its so old asus no longer has driver support for it
It might be included in the output of inxi - but I don't use webcams for anything so I've never checked.
It might also be listed in 'lshw'.
So, open your terminal and enter:
OR:
And share the results. Put the results in code tags like I did with the commands, if you want to make it easier to read them.
It might also be listed in 'lshw'.
So, open your terminal and enter:
Code:
inxi -v 7OR:
Code:
sudo lshwAnd share the results. Put the results in code tags like I did with the commands, if you want to make it easier to read them.
I started using red hat back in the 90's dual booted with win 98 and have been back and forth ever since and was always able to find a solution for most issues till I was in a bad accident 8 years ago and had a brain injury. now its harder to do anything
That has to suck. So far, my faculties remain, even though I am aging more rapidly.
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Sorry to keep this older thread alive, but I figured others might also run into this issue. Have an Asus K52F, (running Xubuntu, but Mint should be similar). Have the output of a few different commands to share:
sudo inxi -v 7
Here's some more detail on the camera via (it was over 400 lines, I've just cut after the first 16 lines):
sudo lsusb -v -s 1:3
I see there are a couple of packages that might be useful: v4l-utils and v4l2loopback-utils. Ideally, people wouldn't have to run a script to get their camera working each time, but I get that some hardware is problematic.
Here's how I got Cheese working on Xubuntu 20.04. Initially, the camera was 'flipped' in Cheese. I installed libv4l-0:
Then I edited the .desktop file that launches Cheese. In the case of Xubuntu 20.04 this was:
In that file I commented out the line that starts with Exec and I added the following line:
I restarted the system then launched Cheese and the web cam was flipped in the correct orientation for Cheese. Sadly, at this point you'd have to test each application. We load Zoom for some people. I haven't checked Zoom on this system yet, but it would be a similar process for Zoom. It looks like the .desktop file is just Zoom.desktop for Zoom (in the same path), and you'd have to replace cheese at the end of that Exec=sh line with zoom.
Hope this helps someone. Sorry it's not exactly for Mint, but should be similar.
sudo inxi -v 7
Code:
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0020
Device-1: 1-1.2:3 info: IMC Networks Integrated Webcam type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 13d3:5130
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0020Here's some more detail on the camera via (it was over 400 lines, I've just cut after the first 16 lines):
sudo lsusb -v -s 1:3
Code:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:5130 IMC Networks Integrated Webcam
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 239 Miscellaneous Device
bDeviceSubClass 2
bDeviceProtocol 1 Interface Association
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x13d3 IMC Networks
idProduct 0x5130 Integrated Webcam
bcdDevice 12.11
iManufacturer 2 Sonix Technology Co., Ltd.
iProduct 1 USB 2.0 Camera
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1I see there are a couple of packages that might be useful: v4l-utils and v4l2loopback-utils. Ideally, people wouldn't have to run a script to get their camera working each time, but I get that some hardware is problematic.
Here's how I got Cheese working on Xubuntu 20.04. Initially, the camera was 'flipped' in Cheese. I installed libv4l-0:
Code:
sudo apt install libv4l-0Then I edited the .desktop file that launches Cheese. In the case of Xubuntu 20.04 this was:
Code:
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Cheese.desktopIn that file I commented out the line that starts with Exec and I added the following line:
Code:
Exec=sh -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so cheese'I restarted the system then launched Cheese and the web cam was flipped in the correct orientation for Cheese. Sadly, at this point you'd have to test each application. We load Zoom for some people. I haven't checked Zoom on this system yet, but it would be a similar process for Zoom. It looks like the .desktop file is just Zoom.desktop for Zoom (in the same path), and you'd have to replace cheese at the end of that Exec=sh line with zoom.
Hope this helps someone. Sorry it's not exactly for Mint, but should be similar.
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maksymilian
New Member
how did you replace the file with new one? it tells me i don't have permission to do anything with it 
Brickwizard
Well-Known Member
you may be able to rotate the picture using nautilus-image-converter
