[KLUG Members] webcam and linux

[Adam bultman]

>
> I'm happily running a webcam from my Linux box here on campus with 
> very few problems.  It was simpler then I was expecting.  The first 
> thing to worry about is your hardware, have you bought the camera or 
> capture card yet and do you have it working?
>
> I don't have much experience with capture equipment, thankfully it has 
> "just worked" most of the time.  I've got a brand-x 
> Booktree-compatible tuner/radio card [I think, kernel module: bttv], 
> and I have an old IBM Brand USB camera [kernel module: ibmcam].
>
> To make them work, all I had to do was re-compile the kernel with 
> video4Linux, and the bttv module or ibmcam module.
>
>
> On the software side, the simplest solution I have found is "webcam", 
> which is part of the xawtv package.  webcam is very simple, all it 
> does is grab a frame, optionally store it locally, add some text, and 
> optionally ftp it to a remote site. It does not, to the best of my 
> knowledge do white balance, which is something I am looking for, if 
> anyone knows another software solution.


I use webcam, and like it a lot. It's kinda dumb, but it will take a new 
picture if things move, etc, so it does all I need.
I have a quickcam, and had to custom-compile a driver for it, but it 
built cleanly, inserts into 2.6.x just fine, and I take all the little 
snapshots I want.

Adam

> xawtv is available from http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/
>
> --MilesP
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