Webcam question

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Mon Aug 26 09:51:53 EST 2002


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Pietro Abate wrote:

> I think you have to use /dev/video to access the camera.
> It uses video4linux API and should not be too difficult to pull
> the latest image from the webcam in a raw format.

Hmmm. I was hoping to just read a bitmap from the dev filesystem, as
opposed to having to use the API.

Oh well, thanks for your help.

Mikal

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