[KLUG Members] re: webcam software

[Mike Williams]

> Message: 1
> From: Tony Gettig <tony@gettig.net>
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Organization: 
> Date: 25 May 2003 16:15:00 -0400
> Subject: [KLUG Members] webcam software
> Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> 
> Any recommendations for webcam software on Linux? I've tried a few
> different ones (camstream, camorama, webcamd, webcam, webcam_server) but
> haven't had great success with any of them yet. A couple of them are
> plain old tough to get running. 
> 
> How did the webcam at Boogies work?

The tricky part with a webcam is not the software, but getting the 
camera driver to work in the first place.  I had one running for a while 
where the only "webcam software" was a cron-launched shell script, but 
that only works as long as the driver does.  Since upgrading to BSWare 8 
I haven't been able to get v4l to talk to my camera.  It's a USB 3Com 
Homeconnect, using the vicam driver.  Of course, I've also been unable 
to build a new kernel that works properly with my LVM mirror, which I 
suppose is the real problem.