Difference between revisions of "Philips Webcam"
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ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video |
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| + | ===My preferred=== |
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| − | * camstream |
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| + | * camorama - gnome2 tool to view, alter and save images from a webcam |
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| − | * xawtv -geometry 352x288-0+0 (and fix FPS to 15) |
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| + | ** Very nice app, had tust to fix dir for saved images in the prefs |
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| + | * motion - V4L capture program supporting motion detection |
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| + | ** copy /etc/motion/motion.conf to ~/.motion/motion.conf and override system-wide settings |
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| + | ** !! give an absolute path for target_dir or it will create a ~ dir!! |
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| + | ===Others=== |
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| + | * camstream - Collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices |
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| + | * xawtv |
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| + | * came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2 |
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| + | ** This sends periodically snapshots to an ftp server |
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| + | * webcam - capture and upload images |
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| + | ** This sends periodically snapshots to an ftp server |
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| + | * gqcam - GTK Webcam control |
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| + | * dov4l - program to set and query settings of video4linux devices |
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| + | * v4l2ucp - A universal control panel for v4l2 devices |
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Latest revision as of 10:48, 20 February 2007
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