webcam

Lou Brown madengr at swbell.net
Thu Jun 1 23:55:28 CDT 2000


I'm running the same setup at home with a BT848 based card and a cgi
program called w3cam.  It has good frame update rate but people using IE
can't view it, only Netscape works.  You can try it at
http://www.lounix.net
Lou

Aaron wrote:
> 
> I have an older webcam that works off it's own PCI capture card.  It's a pretty
> generic card with a brooktree chipset.  The camera is just a little color jobbie
> (sony I think) that sends NTSC signal to the card.  Bought it almost 3 years
> ago.  works great, it's still in use on my PC.  I would be willing to pull it
> and donate it to the "cause" for the week if someone could get it to work.
> Don't know if it would, but I think there's a better shot with it than with a
> USB camera.
> 
> Also, don't forget that my sparc is available for the show.  Just let me know
> where you need it and it's there.  The Netfinity is mounted in it's rack and I
> really don't want to pull it (with the new drives it's weighing in at a cool 300
> pounds), but the sparc is still available.
> 
> As far as the state of the list and of the group in general.  I agree with the
> lack of organization, however, I think that there are enough of us on the list
> who really want to expand our knowlage base (as well as others) that we can get
> past the whiners and do something cool.  This Linuxfest is a good start.  I
> don't have alot of know-how, but I'm willing to donate equipment, time and
> effort in order to advance the project.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Michael Campbell wrote:
> 
> > well...its a pain in the butt in windows...lol...i don't know if it will
> > work in linux, i dought it.  anyone?  its a creative webcam 3.  i cna't even
> > get my pcmcia card modem working in linux, much elss usb devices.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Evan <evanh23 at usa.net>
> > To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:25 PM
> > Subject: kclug - webcam
> >
> > > what kind of cam is it? got it running under linux?
> > > usb (i hope) wont be a problem...i dont have any
> > > usb devices, but i have a port for some. as far as
> > > the site goes...i would suggest putting the html on
> > > the kclug homepage...just the images on a seperate
> > > server..that way people are more aware of our existance
> > > another good thing we could do for the booth might be
> > > to setup a couple gaming machines or something..maybe
> > > quake or something mainstream that the average gamer
> > > might like...
> > >
> > > Evan Hoff
> > > evanh23 at usa.net
> > >
> > > Evan Hoff
> > > evanh23 at usa.net
> > >
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