Re: [pwc] Trouble compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

[Alistair Frith <>]

Indeed I have now discovered that, thanks! 

From the web, I had got the impression there was no driver installed on most distributions. Didn't help that on Windows, VLC lists the available cameras but on Linux you have to type in the camera 'name'. I did not realise this was the device file (though I suspected as such) and did not know which device it would be. lsusb said was it was but that does not mean there is a driver installed and I could not get any images from it.

I then found setpwc and gtksetpwc.pl which gave the device name as /dev/video0. Bloody obvious really and VLC then used it with no problem!

So I intend to use the following:

• Stellarium - to find out where things are
• wxAstroCapture  - to grab the video from the webcam into an AVI
• aviDemux  - to extract jpeg images from the avi since I can't get Registax to load AVI files on Linux
• Registax (under Wine) - to stack & process the jpegs

I think I am all set up so I hope for clear skies tonight

Any other advice? Useful Linux software?

--- Alistair.

On 14 October 2010 13:27, David N. Lombard <> wrote:

On 10/14/2010 01:23 AM, Alistair Frith wrote:

Hi all, just joined the list as I have an SPC880 (flashed to SPC900) and
I want to use it on Linux to do astrophotography.

I am having problems compiling the driver. I get the following error
when making either pwc-10.0.11 or pwc-10.0.12-rc1:

Just try using the version already included in Ubuntu.

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