Comments on: Installing OpenCV from CVS on Ubuntu Edgy

by: Mark B.

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:14:45 +0000

Thanks man… this was super helpful.

by: Kip

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:13:18 +0000

Thank you. My code works now, since the fixes I need are only in latest CVS and not the Ubuntu 1.0.0 package.

by: Mark B.

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:48:03 +0000

You need to build ffmpeg if you want to get video working. Then you need to build OpenCv with ffmpeg support (in linux, of course).

by: fanouris

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:20:49 +0000

I have installed opencv 1.0 in Ubuntu 6.10 using the above directions,
but when i try to run some
of the examples that import video from my camera (dv using firewire)
(e.g lkdemo) it doesn’t work and I have the following message

Could not initialize capturing…

I have done the following trying to fix it

#sudo modprobe raw1394

#testllibraw

# sudo chgrp video /dev/raw1394
# sudo chmod g rw /dev/raw1394

Do I have to do something extra to initialize the firewire support?

thanks,