Webcam
12 February 2006

Summary

The CPiA driver works fine on Sigillo (in the kernel, now also on 2.6.12), so do the qc-usb drivers on gubbio and spello (compiled as modules).

Now that mic input also works on Sigillo, I can use VoIP (skype) and video chat (gnomemeeting).

The cpia-control program works great on Sigillo; motion also works for motion detection.

Quickcam works on spello, using kernel 2.6.14.

ToDo

• camserv - stream video out onto the web
• buy webcams for Norway
  
• eBay
• Justdeals

Commands and instructions

modprobe cpia colorspace_conv=1 (freezes 2.6.12, but works great in 2.6.14)
modprobe cpia_usb

kooka (only does b&w scans)

xawtv (press q to quit, f for full screen)

cpia-control

or

egrep '_comp' /proc/cpia/video0 => to check the color values

The cams also work remotely -- just ssh as root to the machine and enter

motv -n

Guides

• News site: http://www.graphics-muse.com/cgi/gmNews.pl?offset=42

Software

• spook
• live streaming webcam
  
• project page
• written by same developer that wrote the driver for Plextor's TV402U (cf. TV-Capture)
  
• cpia
  
• project page for cpia driver (in kernel)
  
• cpia-control (get deb package)
• xawtv
• man xawtv has lots of info
• file://localhost/usr/share/doc/packages/xawtv/README
• Use xawtv to view the webcam -- get the latest suse rpms from http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/7.3/
• Home page http://bytesex.org/xawtv/
• xawtv configuration example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VCR-HOWTO-3.html
• Possibly useful webcam stuff -- http://www.internet-fiesta.org/linux/webcam.html
• motion detection
  
• motion -- tested and works for motion detection
• streamer (part of xawtv) used with truxmotion (compares jpegs)
  
• www.zoneminder.com
  
• camstream -- allows several windows open at the same time, even from the same device
• http://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc/ -- cams for astronomy
• Linux USB howto -- http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html -- see under webcam
• Video4LinuxGrab -- http://v4lgrab.sourceforge.net/ -- last release os 0.2.2 from 2003-01-25
• Web cam Spca5xx driver (supports lots of cams, see compatibility list)
• ZC030X Webcam Linux Driver Project (supports Creative NX and others -- still in process)
  

• cpia driver
  

• cpia-control (debian package not in Debian -- tested and works)
  
• qc-usb-source -- the successor to gqcam
• qc-usb-utils
• motv
• xawtv
• gnomemeeting
• camserv 1:0.5.0-6 - stream video out onto the web
  Takes a video-for-linux video stream, generally from a camera, and streams it out live to requesting clients. Works with Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, and (under protest) Microsoft Internet Explorer. Includes camserv-specific dynamic library modules libjpg_filter, librand_filter, libtext_filter, libvideo_basic, libvideo_v4l
• several frontends to stuff in KDE -- kdvd, kmplayer, kmencoder, etc. -- see http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/1899
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmediagrab

quickcam: QuickCam USB camera found (driver version QuickCam USB 0.6.3 $Date: 2005/04/15 19:32:49 $)
quickcam: Kernel:2.6.14 bus:4 class:FF subclass:FF vendor:046D product:0870
quickcam: Sensor HDCS-1000/1100 detected
quickcam: Registered device: /dev/video0
usbcore: registered new driver quickcam