[linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread Derek Cassidy
Has anyone tried viewing two cameras at the same time on Linux? I have two OV511 cameras connected to each of the usb ports and they load fine onto /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 but I cannot view both of them at the same time? I've tried xawtv and gqcam Derek

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread Oliver . Neukum
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Derek Cassidy wrote: Has anyone tried viewing two cameras at the same time on Linux? I have two OV511 cameras connected to each of the usb ports and they load fine onto /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 but I cannot view both of them at the same time? I've tried xawtv and

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread Joe Burks
With the 3com homeconnect driver I've written I have a user reporting that he is using 8 cameras simultaneously. Of course he is only grabbing one image from each every few seconds. He has recently switched over to using camserv (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cserv) which allows an

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread Dwaine_Garden
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Derek Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras With the 3com homeconnect driver I've written I have a user reporting that he is using 8 cameras simultaneously. Of course he is only

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread Mark McClelland
Derek Cassidy wrote: Has anyone tried viewing two cameras at the same time on Linux? I have two OV511 cameras connected to each of the usb ports and they load fine onto /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 but I cannot view both of them at the same time? With the ov511 driver, you can use the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Two USB cameras

2002-04-19 Thread David Brownell
Also worth mentioning is the multiple busses fix. One USB camera per bus. You can buy inexpensive PCI cards to add another USB bus. I've seen cards with up to four busses; all the USB 2.0 cards come with at least two suitable for today's webcams. (Plus one really fast one ... :). Also a lot