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[ts-7000] Re: TS-7400, how to use webcam with spca5xx-le driver

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7400, how to use webcam with spca5xx-le driver
From: "Yan Seiner" <>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:14:29 -0000
--- In  "Fred" <> wrote:

> As for the resolution, my webcam doesn't support resolution change
> when I take a picture using vgrabbj.
> 
> I am compiling the 2.6 kernel as we speak. Does it also need the
> spca5xx driver to be able to recognize webcams?
>

You want the gspcav1 driver.

spook <http://www.litech.org/spook/> does a pretty good job of
autodetecting framerates.  The best I've been able to get is 320x240
at about 11 fps - but you really can't do anything with it.  If you
want jpegs, then you're CPU bound and the best I've been able to get
is 1 frame every 1.5 seconds or so at 320x240.

The PWC driver seems to do better - about 3 fps @ 320x240 serving jpegs.

There is also linux-uvc, which I haven't built yet as it's not clear
if it supports any of the webcams I have.

I haven't found any sort of client-server app that would serve raw
webcam streams and then create jpegs on the main server.  That would
be ideal for me - put the ts7xx0 board at the remote site, have it
stream raw webcam data to a bigger server which would then do the work
of creating the jpegs.  The bottleneck seems to be creating the jpegs
from the raw streams.





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