USB web cam

USB web cam

[Wakko Warner]

I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
would be a good choice?

I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.

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Re: USB web cam

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Wakko Warner escreveu:
> I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
> would be a good choice?
> 
> I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.

one based on the ov511 chipset, like the Creative Web Cam 3, look here:

http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511

ooops, it seems to be unreachable here, so look at
Documentation/usb/ov511.txt

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Re: USB web cam

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:

> I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web
> cam, what would be a good choice?

The ov511-based cameras seem to work really nicely.

(this is a cheap chip, used in lots of different cameras)

And while we're on the topic of webcams:
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/webcam/  ;)

regards,

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Re: USB web cam

[J . A . Magallon]

On 2000.12.28 Wakko Warner wrote:
> I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
> would be a good choice?
> 
> I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.
> 

Try a fresh new kernel, at least 2.2.18 or any 19-preX. They include usb
right 'out of the box'.

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Re: USB web cam

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:
> I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.

try http://www.linux-usb.org/

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usb web cam

[ramzez]

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HI friends...
  I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and now I get a "creative go plus" USB webcam...
but I don't how use it over Linux
  Can you help me please?

thanks

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Re: usb web cam

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:46 PM 5/14/2003 -0500, ramzez wrote:
>HI friends...
>   I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and now I get a "creative go plus" USB webcam...
>but I don't how use it over Linux
>   Can you help me please?

I don't know that particular camera ... but as a general matter, you want 
to find a kernel driver that can access it. That in turn is pretty mch a 
function of its internal chipset ... in practice, when I was trying to get 
a Webcam working, I just tried all the "USB Multimedia Devices" choices 
until I found one that worked.

If you're using a precompiled kernel, see if they are included. If you're 
compiling your own, look in (with "make menuconfig") the

         USB Support
                 USB Multimedia Devices

list.

Once you have the camera module working, you can use gqcam to try it out. 
There are probably other apps too, but I'm not really up to speed on this 
stuff any longer. A quick search (in the Debian package list under 
"webcam")  turned up these names, but I can't tell you anything about them 
other than what's here:

came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2
camstream - collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices
cqcam - Color QuickCam (PC/Parallel) control program
feh - imlib2 based image viewer
gkrellkam - GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image
gqcam - GTK Webcam control
motion - V4L Capture Program supporting Movement Detection
vgrabbj - grabs a image from a camera and puts it in jpg/png format
webcam - capture and upload images
webcamd - Capture images from video devices




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Re: usb web cam

[Brian P. Bilbrey]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 23:46, ramzez wrote:
> HI friends...
>   I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and now I get a "creative go plus" USB webcam...
> but I don't how use it over Linux

There were several models of this camera, IIRC. If your's is CT6840,
then it's like mine. At the kernel level, I have Video4Linux and USB
OV511 options built as *modules* (not built into the kernel,it doesn't
work that way for me). At boottime,in my modules.autoload, I specify
ov511, which autoloads the camera module and the dependency, videodev.
Once those are in place, you should be able to use any reasonable V4L
client to do captures, either motion or still.

.brian

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