[ale] anyone using a Linux webcam?

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>From owner-ale at ale.org  Sun Mar  4 14:47:56 2001
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:47:32 -0500
>From: "David S. Jackson" <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net>
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] anyone using a Linux webcam?
>
>I was just wondering if anyone is using a webcam.

Yes... :)

>If so, I'd be interested in knowing how you're doing it, whether
>you're using multiple architectures, sharing resources across a
>local network, and how well your experience with it is going.
>Any resources you found helpful would be appreciated too.
>
>Right now, I'm using an Intel cam that will be taking autosnaps
>and exporting them across a samba share to a Linux box running
>apache.  Since the Intel camera isn't working very well on
>Windows, that's as far as I've gotten.  I need to get it
>replaced, I'm afraid.  It was a refurb, so I thought it would
>work, which it did for a few days.  :-)  Oh well.
>
>Anyway, I was thinking of getting a video capture card and
>hooking it up to my camcorder.  One of the Hauppage's looks
>pretty well supported.  Any ideas here?

Hauppauge cards appear to be well-supported.  Also, check
out "camserv," available in The Usual Places (ie.
freshmeat/sourceforge; I think the url is
http://camserv.sourceforge.net).

>TIA!
>
>--
>David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net

-kc
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