[cpia] CU See Me Cam continues..

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001, Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu> wrote:
> Tried it on a different computer running SuSE Linux 7 and cpia seems to
> load without problems. All the apps I tried for the camera keep failing
> with a 'no overlay' error though. The only one that somewhat seems to work
> is xawtv and if I hit the okay button after it's default message the
> program dies and stops showing what my camera is seeing. Any tips? Thanks.

Overlay is a feature some PCI V4L devices have, but doesn't make much
sense for USB devices.

It's a bug in the application if it requires overlay support, or it just
doesn't want to support anything that doesn't offer overlay.

JE