Camera (was Re: [Trac #175] Squeak/Etoys needs packaging)

[Jim Gettys]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 01:35 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Am 20.10.2006 um 21:38 schrieb Zarro Boogs per Child:
> > Comment (by jg):
> >
> >  Really cool.
> >
> >  Does Etoys/squeak have support for cameras?  We got that running  
> > today...
> 
> 
> Well, there is "VideoFlow", which looks interesting, but requires a  
> plugin that might not have been ported to Linux yet:
> 
> 	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2411
> 
> And I just received some old bits from Tim Rowledge which once formed  
> a Video4Linux plugin.
> 
> How would I access the camera? And until I get a b-test, could this  
> be simulated by a USB camera?

Yes; not perfectly, if the video formats don't match ours, but if they
do, pretty perfectly.

V4l2 is the interface being used (the newer version of the video for
Linux interface).

> 
> - Bert -
> 
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