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Re: [AG-TECH] WebCam

Hi Chris,

I'm specifically after a webcam to set up on my desktop machine that
will work with AG2.4 and 3.  My OS is Ubuntu 6.06 but I'm not to sure if
the AGTK has been packaged up for it yet, so will probably just dual
boot Fedora.

Is there any recommended webcams?

AG vic and the AccessGrid toolkit are using the video4linux ver 1 API, not the newer V4L2. This hasn't been a real problem in the past, as the majority of the V4L2 drivers came with a V4L compatibility layer. But now as V4L support is going to be dropped from newer kernels soon, the newer V4L2 drivers tend to only support the V4L2 API.

So AG 2.4 and 3.0.1 doesn't work with the new Linux UVC (USB Video Class) driver:
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
which will only support V4L2.

I'm in the process of modifying vic to use V4L2 (with support for multiple colour-space formats as used by webcams) and modifying the AGTk code to use V4L2 to interrogate the video capture devices. I'm using the PWC webcam driver (note: I don't think PWC capable webcams are still sold.) for testing. I might have something ready in the next couple of weeks.

I will probably retrofit V4L2 support for AG2.4 Fedora RPMs.


Doug