[ILUG] Webcam for John "Kate" Looney

[Guest, Ken]

Last time that I looked at the info pages of getting linux running on 
Vaio's (a few weeks back) there was no news of that camera being supported.
A shame really.



#-----Original Message-----
#From: Noel Carroll [mailto:Noel.Carroll at CardBase.com]
#Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:33
#To: ilug at linux.ie
#Subject: RE: [ILUG] Webcam for John "Kate" Looney
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#
#Is the camera on the VAIO supported under Linux yet?
#
#> -----Original Message-----
#> From: Caolan McNamara [mailto:cmc at stardivision.de]
#> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:00 AM
#> To: ilug at linux.ie
#> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Webcam for John "Kate" Looney
#> 
#> 
#> At 23:44 26.06.00 -0400, D ONeill wrote:
#> >Hi JK:
#> >
#> >Forgive a newbie, please. You inquired about webcams within the last
#> >two weeks and I never saw a reply of any sort. I'm certain you know
#> >that CU-SeeMe have Linux software. Looks to me as if all but Intel
#> >cams work with this stuff, and that gives one many options.
#> >
#> >Keep in mind that I've not actually used it but have heard good
#> >reports.
#> 
#> On the ultracheapy front I had a working linux quickcam setup with
#> a connectix job (http://www.connectix.com) stuck into parallel port
#> driven with qcam-grabber (http://bob.usuf2.usuhs.mil/video/). There
#> was some cloned cu-seeme (quseeme ? or sommat) available. Twas black
#> and white, but they have color models as well.
#> 
#> Turned it into security camera when some lowlife walked off with my
#> cdburner from openplan postgrad area. Could carefully review 10 hours
#> of security guards walking around and lights coming on and off. Would
#> be neat to have some software intelligent nough to review a 
#> camera feed
#> searching for possible persons, or at least able to flag a 
#> significantly
#> large enough delta between images as a possible interesting feature
#> worthy of human review.
#> 
#> C.
#> 
#> 
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