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Wed, 08 Mar 2006
Web Cams are fun - 21:22
So I spent a while today at work mucking around with some web cams we bought
cheaply. They used the spca5xx driver which is apparently based on the old
ov511 code. One of the two (and IMO the nicer camera) is the remarkably cheap
Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks, it looks like some small flying saucer side
on. Once the spca5xx driver was installed I was able to use gqcam and pan
around the office and wander around with a laptop attached watching the
video.
I can kind of understand why there would be fun aspects to
Mikal's PhD research, mucking about with
imaging and output quality of these things among other topics. I guess I was
having more fun with this one as I was setting it up to be used for something
other than a security monitor which is what we use a few other cameras around
the department for.
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