[clug] USB webcam video capture

Andrew Janke a.janke at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 18:06:49 MDT 2015


> Dropping this into /etc/udev/rules.d/60-video-permissions.rules should work:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", MODE="0777"
>
> 0777 is possibly not appropriate, however :-)

Ta, seems to work. In this case 777 is appropriate. It's a machine
setup to monitor lab instruments with 7 USB HD cameras. I've had to
add a few extra USB cards so that I don't max out USB bus bandwidth.


> 2651618395 769 /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-v4l.rules
> 467730766 3074 /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

Same here.

> pbarker at eccles:/lib/udev/rules.d$ cksum * | cksum
> 3870272332 3708

Different here. Curious.


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