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Universal Webcam drivers

Started by miturbide, 2007.05.17, 04:53:28

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miturbide


Supporting thread for the Universal Webcam drivers bounty. The original and old bounty thread can be found
here.


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I think that this bounty should have some list of webcams that we will like to see working under OS/2-eCs. Possible the "Universal Webcam Driver" is to broad and general.

Possible it should be a port of the " Linux kernel webcams Driver GSPCA / SPCA5xx". (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)
It have several webcam listed.

what do the sponsors think about it ?
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djcaetano

Quote from: miturbide on 2007.07.28, 20:15:32

I think that this bounty should have some list of webcams that we will like to see working under OS/2-eCs. Possible the "Universal Webcam Driver" is to broad and general.

Possible it should be a port of the " Linux kernel webcams Driver GSPCA / SPCA5xx". (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)
It have several webcam listed.

what do the sponsors think about it ?

  I am not a sponsor (yet), but I think your comment do make sense.
I do not even believe it is possible to do an universal WebCam driver, since
there are so many chipsets. Besides, this driver you pointed out support
many common webcam devices.

  Regards.

rwklein

Kewl webcam drivers again. I remeber being at one of the first Netlabs developer workshops and Vladest (author of Warvision) had a  driver. And he had a kewl app, but he could look at him self.

Its good you guys bring up the topic again. But in all discussions I always miss one thing.
What about the application to use the webcam with ? From my point of view Mercury messanger is the best bet.
Its written in java http://mercury.im/ I run it from time to time.

It has an interface that somehow with quicktime can accept video input. You can already view webcam feeds with it, just not send.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205592 I found this discussion. Don't know what is needed for this. It would require of course some OS/2 specific code.

There is already a webcam driver for OS/2 I think somewhere on Netlabs...

A webcam that only sends its data to the screen is nice, but only if you want have confirmed the whole day how handsome you look :-)

Roderick

warpcafe

Hi,

I found a platform-independant alternative here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror
Okay, sorry. I know that was not quite productive... yet, I simply couldn't resist...

Cheers,
Thomas
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy

miturbide

haha, good one Thomas.

But about the webcam, the driver it is important and the application too. But It should start somewhere.  What was the status of the webcam drivers on netlabs ? does anybody test it ? is it complete open source, can it work as a start for this ?
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rwklein

The sources might be in the Warpvision repository:

For binary package:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/2526/48/

I think I read somewhere Paul Smedley stated (somebody quoted him) that the sources are not realy usefull...

Roderick

Paul Smedley

Quote from: rwklein on 2009.09.22, 18:40:24
The sources might be in the Warpvision repository:

For binary package:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/2526/48/

I think I read somewhere Paul Smedley stated (somebody quoted him) that the sources are not realy usefull...


I don't remember commenting on this - but I maybe I just forget commenting :P

onlineuser2

I think a webcam driver  +  internet dialog sw are absolutely needed!

As much as I am concerned: I am only one of the sponsor and I agree with having a listed webcam driver.

I suppose  that the other bounty sponsors for "universal" driver will agree too.

Surely if somebody will announce any possible good results about the bounty, the amount will increase with other sponsors (as it happened in the past).

The need of thinking together the webcam and apps sounds reasonable.

It doesn't matter for the users if  it is Mercury or other ones (by qt4 ?), the point is getting communication + audio + webcam. The question is up to the programmers.




rwklein

Quote from: Paul Smedley on 2009.09.23, 06:02:34
Quote from: rwklein on 2009.09.22, 18:40:24
The sources might be in the Warpvision repository:

For binary package:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/2526/48/

I think I read somewhere Paul Smedley stated (somebody quoted him) that the sources are not realy usefull...


I don't remember commenting on this - but I maybe I just forget commenting :P

Oooh darn I should have been more carefull writing something like this.

This thread, somebody might have mis quoted you.

http://osdir.com/ml/org.netlabs.warpvision.general/2007-06/msg00010.html

Roderick

rwklein

Quote from: onlineuser2 on 2009.09.23, 10:53:42
The need of thinking together the webcam and apps sounds reasonable.

It doesn't matter for the users if  it is Mercury or other ones (by qt4 ?), the point is getting communication + audio + webcam. The question is up to the programmers.

Keep an eye on the requirementlist, without thinking about hand in hand a bounty for a webcam driver and application is pretty useless unless you want a digital mirror... Like Warpcafe wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror

Think very well about it that we have multiple messanger protocols like America Online (still around ?), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, MSN. I'm did not do research to find an application that could support these mayor chat protocols, is cross platform (so hopefully easy portable to Os/2) and would support webcams as well.

Something to realy consider is that such a client in some cases requires maintance. Then its better to take for example a platform neutral client as Mercury messanger (for MSN).

It would not be good old Microsoft again if they would not modify the MSN protocol. Look on http://mercury.im/
At the top of the page: "You are logged out because there was a problem with the connection with the MSN server' bug just after signin. Mercury 1.9.5 and Mercury 2.0 RC1 have been released to fix this."

Thats an example of needing somebody todo maintainance on the client.

Roderick

Saijin_Naib

#11
AIM is still huge, mostly in the US and Canada. MSN seems bigger in Europe/Asia, ICQ also is bigger in europe. Yahoo seems to also be Asia as well predominantly.

There are some multiprotocol IM clients (Pidgin, Digsby) come to mind. Digsby uses Wxwidgets and Webkit (it was created by some kids at my school!). I've contacted them before about starting an OS/2 port but they straight up ignored me. Maybe if someone with more authority from here contacted them...

AIM has opened their program/protocol a lot to developers now.

miturbide


The thread about the webcam driver from warpvision is quite hard to follow.

What happened to the source code? and who developed it ?
Does it work ? does anybody tested it with the webcams listed ?

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EugeneGorbunoff

The control program + modified USB drivers were developed by Vit for company selling ATM solutions: http://www.ssi.com.ua/wwwssi.nsf/compage/65?OpenDocument

supported hardware: Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro + compatible

source code: I don't know is it available or not

miturbide

Eugene, whichis the complete name of Vit ?
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