scriptable webcam software ?

Kurt Wall kwall
Sun Nov 28 04:56:57 PST 2004


On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 10:58:34PM -0800, Ted Ozolins took 32 lines to write:
> Net Llama! wrote:

[camsrv borken on FC3]

> Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong webcam, but wasn't there an issue with 
> some proprietary code that required a patch in the kernel that would 
> hook to that code. Then because of GPL that hook was removed from the 
> kernel. Your aplication might still work but You might have to aquire 
> that bit of code. I use to have that post saved but alas have since 
> deleted  it. Something to look into.

The PWC driver is back into the 2.6 kernel with a reverse-engineered
compression driver.

Kurt
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