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So, what programs do you have that use the webcam? I'd like to try and wait for skype to have a solid 2.0 release, but If I was able to easily use the webcam in other apps, that would be awesome. The built in ucwebcam program shows it's pretty competent, I'd just like to show it off more! 
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If you fancy a bit of work. You may be able to set it up as a streaming server: http://mjpg-streamer.wiki.sourceforge.net/ You can use Videolan http://www.videolan.org/ to see what the EEE's camera sees on another computer on your network.
You could use Motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome so that it saves a jpg image every time the camera sees movement. Good for cat tracking.
I've not tried this on the EEE PC, but I have got it going on a different setup. Its very fiddly to get working.
K.
Last edited by karl101 (2007-12-05 12:39:15 pm)
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karl101 wrote:
If you fancy a bit of work. You may be able to set it up as a streaming server: http://mjpg-streamer.wiki.sourceforge.net/ You can use Videolan http://www.videolan.org/ to see what the EEE's camera sees on another computer on your network.
You could use Motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome so that it saves a jpg image every time the camera sees movement. Good for cat tracking.
I've not tried this on the EEE PC, but I have got it going on a different setup. Its very fiddly to get working.
K.
I've been trying to get VLC to stream the webcam, but with no luck. From the research that I've done, it seems that VLC only currently supports v4l (Video for Linux) and the built in webcam uses v4l2. The very latest unstable VLC version (0.8.6d) appears to support v4l2, but I've been unable to find a debian package for that version yet....Boo.
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Have you tried compiling it from source? I seem to remember other people saying that they've got the webcam working with VLC, but I'm not sure. I hope it does work (when my eee bothers to arrive...) because I'm not too keen on the 1-2fps that the built in webcam app seems to be recording.
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try UCView it is usually pre installed. So u can record videos and take pictures.
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I installed aMSN using instructions somewhere on here (Thanks, whoever did that). It works fine.
Skype 2 beta seems to work OK too.
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Hi,
I've managed to get mjpg-streamer to work. I compiled the latest release on Debian and then copied it over to the Eee.
You can find the fruits of my labour here : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zmower/eee … reamer.tgz
Do ./run_server to start and ctrl-C to stop. Point your browser to port 8080 on the Eee pc's IP address to see the output.
Chris
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gstreamer and friends knows how to get data from v4l2 device. So, use gst-launch and pipe it through filters and on the end pipe it to some stream (like icecast2).
Good luck!
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....on the other hand. If you need something lightweight, you can follow these easy instructions (if you want to install mjpg-streamer using apt):
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=13624
Last edited by kost (2008-02-05 7:44:52 am)
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The development version of VLC (0.9.0) supports v4l2 (video4linux version 2). I am able to view the camera fine with vlc, but I can't stream it yet.
vlc --no-audio --width=640 --height=480 v4l2://
Scripts and examples available here:
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/dev … tware/bin/
-Jeff
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