RE: Web Camera connection

[droege@snapmail.us]

Arrrrrg!  I have a big box full of various USB cameras that also don't
work on linux.  I thought this one was a particularly good chance since it
was designed to work on eathernet.  Sigh!

Perhaps Ron will have my solution.  If he succeeds in getting my linux
machines on the network then there is the following solution that I can
manage:

First note that I can point the camera now from the linux machines.

1) Run the camera from the Windoz machine.  Get some program on Windoz
that periodically captures a frame and writes it to a file. For this I may
need help. It can just keep overwriting the same file.  Say once a second.
 No matter that this will take the full Windoz bandwith.  It is not doing
anything worth while anyway except writing the LML Rolls-Royce Club
newsletter and we can suspend picture operation while working on the
newsletter.

2) Make the Windoz file available over the LAN.  This should be possible
because that is how I have been running for the last two years.  The
machines that take data running under Windoz 98 have been readable from
any of the linux machines.  It is just that the Windoz machine does not
know about the linux network machines.

3) On the linux machine I can now read the files over the network and
display them using gimp.  I will just get the file when I want to see a
still frame of where it is looking.

Tom Droege




>
> Yeah, tell Tom to purchase a camera from this list
> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~guilbert/saic-robot/webcam/webcam.html, and to
> run a USB line up to the roof ;-)
>
> What a drag...
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-tass@listserv.wwa.com
>> [mailto:owner-tass@listserv.wwa.com] On Behalf Of David Dunbar
>> Sent: March 14, 2005 11:22 AM
>> To: listserver tass
>> Subject: Web Camera connection
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea on what to try next?
>>
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