Heya On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 12:39, Adam Kennedy wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for linux compatible > webcams, or rather, webcams that you can actually write applications for.
Almost everything you'll find conforms to the Video4Linux API, so in theory your app should work everywhere. I highly recommend the Philips Vesta cams. But they're slightly dated, and, at the risk of contradicting myself, aren't supported by very many applications at the moment. :-) That comes down to the fact that the hardware only supports one palette, and the palette conversion routines were pulled from the driver when it was integrated into the official kernel tree. But I digress.. > I've always been somewhat interested in real time video type stuff, and I'd > like to have a go at hacking on a webcam motion tracking / telepresence type > application, but I'll needa webcam that I can get access to in code, to pull > the stream from. http://motion.technolust.cx is a great place to start on this. Also look in to the loopback driver by the same author, linked from there. Cheers, -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
