[Nottingham] Webcams (query on new laptop)

[James of the Family Moore]

I love Zoneminder! Easily the best static CCTV DVR package in existence. 
I don't think there's a practical limit on how many cameras it can 
handle, either... I installed a system with 168 cameras (CMOS (on a 
32-channel controller), USB and IP varieties)... four cores and 8GB of 
RAM handled it.... just.

On 15/07/2010 08:56, Martin wrote:
> On 14/07/10 22:39, Brian Pickford wrote:
>    
>> On 14 July 2010 22:14, Frederic Vagner<fred at vagner.me.uk
>>
>>      I wonder : what can you do with a webcam on Linux. I can't make it work
>>      with Pidgin, as apparently it does not support webcams, what can you do
>>      with it ?
>>
>> cheese, stopmotion, zoneminder
>>      
> You might need to use v4l1compat to get some webcam streaming
> applications to work. For example:
>
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so camstream
>
> I'll add to the list:
>
> motion, camorama, camstream.
>
> I've used Ekiga ("softphone") with a webcam fine. Not investigated any
> others.
>
>
> More of a problem is finding any webcams that are decent. Usually, even
> if the sensor chips are fine, the lenses are rather poor. The newer
> "UVC" webcams are definitely the way to go for compatibility.
>
>
> Is there a list anywhere of v4l2 applications?
>
> Have fun!
> Martin
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