Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

im sorry sir noobmonkey for not clarifying my notes,i install the application,gstreamer is updated then after that this word will come out "/home/user #" i mean what i will do next or what i will type next,theres no option for saving.tnx a lot.

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

lol.......sir!

x-terminal is like a dos prompt in windows. you cant save things like a word editor. but you can create scripts to make repeating the task easier.

in x-terminal you litterally type the command in and hit enter. it then runs the command you type in, or throws up an error.

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

I have the latest firmware and I tried couple of step all of you mentioned in this thread for activating the front camera but nothing worked. I used xtermina and also pusht but everything failed.

Please help me out to activate the cam.

Thanks

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

Please can you post the outcome of what you tried in x-terminal?

When you try running a command, if it does not work it will post an error message. hard to help without any details :(

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

well im a newbie and everything in the first page helped me. first you have to get the tools:

open xterminal

type:
apt-get install gstreamer-tools

after that type:

gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! autovideosink

it will pause for a min then it will come on.

hopefully soon we can get a real webcam app that can initiate the front cam instead of all these damn work arounds. lol would be nice to have one with cam settings like resolution and brightness.

hope i helped. this is what worked for me

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

I typed

gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! autovideosink

then it shows gst-launch: not found

I don't have rootch installed and i have version 3.2010.02-8.002. I believe that's PR 1.2, right?

What am i doing wrong here?

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

Lol!
Ok that is pr 1.1.1 (Healthcheck should tell you that!!)
PR1.2 is not out yet, apart from in the SDK.

if GST-launch is not found then you do not have gstreamer tools installed correctly,

I would suggest that once you are comfortable, install rootsh from extras and follow the above commands.

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

Ok, i did this then how do i use the cam? is it an application that i downloaded.

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

i guess thats what happens when u be on pr1.2 thread lol all the time.my bad dude

Re: N900- Front camera activation command...
 

You downloaded a command line tool - not a gui application

Now you need to retry this command in x-terminal
gst-launch is part of the suite that you downloaded, before-hand you got an error saying it did not exist, so after downloading it should now exist :D