Re: Logitech Quickcam 3000 pro -extracting raw frames

From: David Konerding (dek_at_compbio.berkeley.edu)
Date: 11/25/03


Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:14:20 +0000 (UTC)

In article <e3805b94.0311231932.45e90629@posting.google.com>, Steve wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have never used my USB quickcam under linux before and I was
> wondering how easy it is to extract frames from the camera as raw
> images so that I could process them in a language such as C.
>
>
> I'm not so concerned with just using it to output a live stream to the
> monitor. I am looking for ease of functionality in handling the video
> data in C.
>
> Any suggestions on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve

Yes, I suggest:

http://www.exploits.org/v4l/

and do some other googling for v4l. There are a few nice API descriptions
and a lot of code examples which do capture from C.

Dave



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