[uug] Video in linux

[Brent Thomson]

Hey, all. I just plugged in my Logitech QuickCam Express, installed the 
drivers (qce-ga), and ran modprobe quickcam. Who would have guessed it, 
but my camera works! Cool!And by cool, I mean totally sweet. [1]

Anyway, once I can saw that little picture in gnomemeeting I started 
longing for more. I've found that the camera is /dev/video0 and that I 
can capture the output of the camera by running cat on /dev/video0 and 
dumping that into a file.

Now, my questions are: 1) What format might that dump be in? 2) Has 
anybody every done anything with real-time compression? I just thought 
it might be cool to write my own video streaming program. Anywho, just 
fishing for info.

-Brent

[1] http://www.realultimatepower.net/

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