[AG-TECH] Firewire camera

[Don Morton]

Kyle,

I'll take this one, since I think I'm the most recent person
to try this.  Happy to talk with you via phone (or AG)
about this later...  The information I have came from a
potpourri (sp?) of sources in the AG community so, I'm
just sort of summarising:

- It IS possible to use cheap USB webcams on video cap machine
- I found success with the Logitech Quickcam Pro 3000 ($100)
- Good USB support in Linux kernels is apparently pretty
  new, so I installed RH 7.3 on a machine, then followed 
  some instructions I found at

  http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/pwc/

- I had problems with the vic that comes with AG 1.0, and 
  someone suggested I used the openmash version, and it
  worked like a charm.  That's it in a nutshell.  If 
  folks are REAL interested, I'll consider putting more
  info on a web page.

Don

Kyle Balling wrote:
> 
> I am setting up a machine to introduce AG to a small rural community. This
> calls for cheap cameras for the video capture machine. Is there any
> information on firewire camera compatibility with vic on Linux? If not
> firewire, then USB? any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
> from,
> Kyle


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