Archive for the tag 'webcam'

Linux Kernel Hackers remove the Philips USB Webcam support

Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.
This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.
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admin August 26th, 2004

Building mpeg/avi/divx with a webcam

This is a small tips to build a avi/divx/mpeg/what you want, with webcam as input in realtime. Simply use mencoder (the encoder build by the mplayer team)
mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=160:height=120 -ovc divx4 -o test.avi
Take care, that you should respect the width/height of the current webcam settings.

admin January 21st, 2004