Philips Webcam

New info

• Driver: http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
• Setpwc: http://www.vanheusden.com/setpwc/
  • There is also a Debian package
• Wiki: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WebHome

Old info

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

copy pwcx-i386.o to /lib/modules/usb/

In /etc/modutils/webcam:

post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force /lib/modules/usb/pwcx-i386.o >/dev/null 2>&1  || :

update-modules

Kernel

• multimedia devices -> video for linux: M
• USB support -> USB Philips cameras (pwc.o)
• USB support -> USB Audio support (audio.o)

mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
chown root:video /dev/video0
chmod 660 /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

Softs

My preferred

• camorama - gnome2 tool to view, alter and save images from a webcam
  • Very nice app, had tust to fix dir for saved images in the prefs
• motion - V4L capture program supporting motion detection
  • copy /etc/motion/motion.conf to ~/.motion/motion.conf and override system-wide settings
  • !! give an absolute path for target_dir or it will create a ~ dir!!

Others

• camstream - Collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices
• xawtv
• came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2
  • This sends periodically snapshots to an ftp server
• webcam - capture and upload images
  • This sends periodically snapshots to an ftp server
• gqcam - GTK Webcam control
• dov4l - program to set and query settings of video4linux devices
• v4l2ucp - A universal control panel for v4l2 devices