Episode 37: Webcams
00:00:52 News & personal updates
ROTHGAR
MythTV 0.23 was released (and installed)
Looking at virtual solutions at work
Using Diigo to bookmark sites with annotations
Hoping to buy and move into his house soon
CHARLES
New job within the same company
Giving presentation to American Women’s Society of CPAs about mobile computing using a BlackBerry
Linux Mint 9 “Isadora” released
ROTHGAR
00:29:55 Webcams
Michel Xhaard is responsible for making ~250 webcams work under Linux
Webcam charts
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
http://opensource.creative.com/webcam.html
http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/
http://302found.com/linux_webcams/
Webcam software
GUI programs
Cheese
Skype
vlc (open capture device)
camorama
Command line tools
fswebcam
webcam
webcamd
Use the commands lsusb to find model and dmesg to find the driver
Models we use
Rothgar
- Logitech webcam pro 9000 – Rightlight, RightSound technology (Windows only), 720p video recording (Windows only?)
- Built in 2MP for 2730p laptop – cheese was really dark, vlc worked great, camorama said it couldn’t open the device
- iSight 1.3MP from MacBook Pro and iMac (need to verify they both work)
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight
- Microsoft webcam – Doesn’t work, green screen in Linux
Charles
- Logitech QuickCam Communicate MP (Worked out of the box with Cheese)
How to make it work
Install V4L and V4L2 drivers
V4L and V4L2 are video input drivers for linux
Small troubleshooting guide: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Webcam-HOWTO/
00:58:54 Web site of the week
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