lsusb Bus 002 Device 009: ID 05a9:a511 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV511+ Webcam v4l2-ctl --all Driver Info (not using libv4l2): Driver name : ov519 Card type : USB Camera (05a9:a511) Bus info : usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.7 Driver version: 4.15.18 Capabilities : 0x85200001 Video Capture Read/Write Streaming Extended Pix Format Device Capabilities Device Caps : 0x05200001 Video Capture Read/Write Streaming Extended Pix Format Priority: 2 Video input : 0 (ov519: ok) Format Video Capture: Width/Height : 640/480 Pixel Format : 'O511' Field : None Bytes per Line : 640 Size Image : 614400 Colorspace : JPEG Transfer Function : Default (maps to sRGB) YCbCr/HSV Encoding: Default (maps to ITU-R 601) Quantization : Default (maps to Full Range) Flags : Streaming Parameters Video Capture: Frames per second: invalid (0/0) Read buffers : 2 User Controls brightness 0x00980900 (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=127 value=127 flags=inactive, slider contrast 0x00980901 (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=127 value=127 flags=slider saturation 0x00980902 (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=127 value=127 flags=slider power_line_frequency 0x00980918 (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=0 value=0 brightness_automatic 0x00980920 (bool) : default=1 value=1 flags=update camorama --version # Camorama version 0.19 # working fine not cheese or mpv # Linux cis 4.15.0-99-generic #100-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 22 20:32:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux