[Etoys] Re: Camera (was Re: [Trac #175] Squeak/Etoys needs
packaging)
Jim Gettys
jg at laptop.org
Fri Oct 20 20:04:52 EDT 2006
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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