On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:00:42PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> > OK. I Manually downloaded the gspca-source module and did 'm-a update' and > when I went through the steps it seemed to build OK, but did not load. > Silly me! Once I unplugged the camera and re-plugged it in, the driver > loaded just like it ought to. At least is seems to have done so. Running > lsmod shows the gspca module and a few other new modules. Dmesg shows: > > usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 > usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. (SPCA501 ) > /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_probe:3887] Camera type YUYV > /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1165] maxw 640 > maxh 480 minw 160 minh 120 > usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca > /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.04 registered > > So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so that > I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking of using > opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access the camera to > generate an image (probably jpeg) that I could then save to disk or, > preferably, pipe to opencv?
look at /dev/video* and look at any number of video capture programs. I use motion, there are many many others. A
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