I've built a somewhat embedded gentoo system that I use on a robot. I'm adding a webcam, which is a brand new field for me. I'm not even sure how to define what I'm looking for.
I'm not using embedded-gentoo because I wanted to use the standard libc and not uclibc. I'd like to be able to stream video from the webcam. I don't need full tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself. I'm using a creative notebook webcam and the spca5xx driver. There is a suite of applications in a package called spcaview but it depends on X. Can anyone suggest a solution, or at least a path of further research? Perhaps what I'm looking for is a framegrabber and not a full webcam server? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
