Webcam recommendations

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru> (from Mon, 21 Mar 2011  
18:23:55 +0300):

> On 21.03.2011 15:01, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> Looks like I was too quick about that. Anyway, maybe you could bother to add
>> some prints in:
>>
>> v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
>>
>> Because the V4l1 -> V4L2 translation should already be in place.
>
> Hi,
>
> After some time of reading code i understand several things.
> webcamd contains a bunch of linux kernel drivers. Also any freebsd's
> application can use v4l1 and v4l2 with /dev/videoX, but linux's
> binaries can not. They can only use v4l1, because linux.ko supports
> only v4l1. Anyway webcamd has some v4l1 to v4l2 translation inside.
> But it does not work for my UVC webcam (translation works, but camera
> does not) :(

nox@ has some patches to add v4l2 support to the linuxulator.

Bye,
Alexander.

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