On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:18:07PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:20, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > I'm not sure what would be best practice to avoid those errors, because > > the admin might have to configure the video device first anyway (though > > the default /dev/video0 is usually a nice guess). > > I should think the normal case for a webcam (I'm thinking USB webcams, > now) would be for the cam to not necessarily be present at boot time. > Instead, when the cam module is loaded/unloaded by the kernel it should > invoke via kernel module (un-)loading hooks the necessary scripts for > starting/stopping the streaming server. Are you sure you really want > this as an init script?
My sponsor wanted me to add one... :) My first package version was just the installed software with a sample configuration and a text describing how to set up and start it. BTW - it does not have to be a webcam. It could also stream your desktop e.g. depending on the module and how you configured it. -- Balu
