A webcam is a video camera that sends its video data to a computer in real time, as opposed to recording it first.
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Can I use a laptop microphone and webcam for an application on a desktop?
I game on a desktop computer and I have a few spare laptops. I use one next to my gaming desktop to manage Skype, etc., but I want to use the microphone and perhaps the webcam in game.
Is there any ...
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Rotate webcam video on Ubuntu Linux
I need to rotate (90 degrees) the video feed of my laptop webcam to use it with skype/hangout.
It seems to be possible using the gstreamer infrastructure, but I don't know how.
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Simplest video grab from webcam: how to
On Raspbery Pi's Raspbian (based on Debian Wheezy) I'm trying to make a simplest video grab from a Logitech C910 webcam to a video file via ffmpeg/avconv.
I say:
$ avconv -t 5 -f video4linux2 -s ...
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How do I use Canon CyberShot A800 as a webcam?
How do I get the Canon CyberShot A800 digicam be detected as a webcam when plugged in to a Windows 7 PC?
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Take multiple pictures per second with Logitech webcam 600
I have a Logitech webcam 600. I use the software that installs by default(Logitech Webcam Software) in Windows 7 when I plugin the camera. I would like to take multiple pictures per second(the most ...
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How to access a wireless IP CAM from one Wireless network to another Wireless network
Recently I got a Apexis IP Wireless camera and I have configured it to my Belkin Router. All users who is connected to this Router able to access this camera with my configured IP and port ...
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Adding a web cam feed in to remote desktop connection for Expression Encoder 4 to live stream
How do I give a remote connection access to my local web cam so that Expression Encoder 4 installed on my remote connection is able to adding my local camera as a Live Source for Smooth Live ...
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Webcam not working - drivers look fine, WIA is started, cams get detected by Windows and Skype etc
How can I debug a webcam issue if
the event viewer doesn't show any errors concerning WIA or camera/hardware topics
WIA is started and restarting it causes no errors/warnings in the event log ...
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How do I use the webcam on my laptop?
I have a Core i3 model of the dell laptop.There is a webcam placed on top of the laptop.It becomes usable automatically when I am trying to place a pic on some social media site or something.How do I ...
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webcam and wifi adapter “break” usb?
I have a webcam, a mouse, and a wifi adapter all plugged into the same USB bus at the back of my computer. When I run a program to utilize the webcam, both the webcam and wifi adapter stop working and ...
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Linux USB Webcam, finding the bottleneck
I'm getting very low FPS on a USB webcam with the Raspberry Pi. Oddly, top shows only about 10% CPU usage. As far as I know, the webcam forces 30fps. But I've tried various apps and I can't get more ...
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UVCCapture resulting in: ioctl querycontrol error 22
I'm trying to capture an image from my webcam (Raspberry Pi, Rasbpbian). Using the following command:
uvccapture -v
I get the following output:
Using videodevice: /dev/video0
Saving images to: ...
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Linux: get snapshot from webcam
What are some different ways of grabbing a snapshot from a webcam via the CLI?
I'm having trouble streaming a webcam from a Raspberry Pi because of its limited resources. So I'm looking at ways of ...
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SWF stream in GeekTool
I'm trying to configure an image geeklet with the webcam at http://pitchdrop2.physics.uq.edu.au/stream.swf, to no avail though.
I do monitor an incoming connection and data flowing to GeekTool ...
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Notebook refusing to use headset microphone over built-in webcam mic
I'm running Windows 7 on an MSI GX740 notebook with Realtek's HD Audio drivers (updated) and recently purchased a Turtle Beach X12 headset. The headset's mic is analog, and when I plug it in my ...
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How to run a webcam without Internet cable
I live in an apartment in Washington, DC. My only option for cable (TV and Internet) is Comcast. I am extremely dissatisfied with my service and want to cancel. There's WiFi in the lobby of the ...
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Configure PS3 Eye in openSUSE
Searching for a solution has proven futile so far.
I recently installed openSUSE 12.3 and decided to test whether or not the PS3 Eye camera would work with it out of the box. It does work but the ...
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Adding drivers for a device that's not listed in Device Manager
I'm running Windows 7 x64 on a Dell XPS m1730 laptop. I recently re-installed Windows 7 (complete wipe) and since that time, have been unable to get my Creative Labs Integrated Webcam working (or even ...
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how I do streaming with raspberry by rtp?
I want to cast my webcam by rtp with raspberry pi.
I've tried this:
ffserver -f /etc/ffserver.conf & ffmpeg -v verbose -r 5 -s 640x480 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 –f rtp ...
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What to consider when putting a webcam outside?
For one of my websites, I need to install an outdoor webcam (located at a ski resort) to broadcast live images to the website.
So my question is simple: what are the webcam characteristics required ...
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HDMI to USB converter
I'd like to use my camcorder for video conferencing.
On the one end, the camcorder outputs HDMI. On the other end, the PC takes USB input. How do I convert the HDMI video feed to a "webcam" USB ...
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Server Software to stream Webcam to DLNA Digital Media Renderer
Idea
I'm curious if it is possible to stream a webcam to an DLNA Digital Media Renderer...
Here's the idea:
We have a webcam attached to a small server
running a DLNA Digital Media Server (DMS) ...
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Lenovo webcam ignores blue color
By software based error, my webcam often sets itself to ignore blue in my room. If I force different resolution then 640x480, the problem is fixed. But if I return back to normal resolution, the ...
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How to turn the laptop built-in webcam on/off from shell
Fn+F6 key combination turns my laptop's integrated web camera on/off. Looking at the dmesg output, it seems that the webcam (USB device) is being more or less virtually connected/disconnected to/from ...
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How can I extract the raw data from a webcam stream?
I would like to start doing some programming in machine/computer vision with my webcam. What software/programming language can I use to interface with my webcam. Somehow I need the images to be dealt ...
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analog video capture mac (webcam) [duplicate]
I have an old analog camera BNC
any idea how I could connect the video to my macbook to be essentially a webcam for live streaming.
my laptop is running OS X version 10.8.2
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Video recording from a webcam [closed]
I need to record video from my webcam. I found the one solution in youtube that provides some tools for this matter, but it doesn't give a good quality of video. So maybe there're some better tools I ...
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Acer AOD260 No webcam after restoring?
I have an Acer Aspire One D260 32-bit netbook.
I've restored the computer a few times & for awhile now, the webcam hasn't restored. I cannot find the webcam in "devices" & am unsure what to ...
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v4l2 issues with webcam encoded to H.264
I am trying to send a H.264 webcam video feed over wifi to another computer using gstreamer. I am using this tutorial as a guide. I am using a Creative Live! Cam Connect HD as my webcam. The website ...
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Web cam as a security camera? [closed]
I would like to monitor my house when I am out with a camera. I was thinking I could use a webcam.
The problem is I don't want to leave my PC turned on just to let web camera records the video.
Are ...
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Webcam Issues (I cant take videos in any way, shape, or form)
I recently got an HP Envy m6 with windows 8, and I love it but it has one really annoying problem. It cant take videos... at all. I contacted support and they didn't really do anything. It still takes ...
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How to take photographs with a webcam? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7?
I installed a webcam on my PC and want to use it for taking photographs. I know the camera is working because I can ...
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Can't install the webcam driver of dell inspiron n4030
I have my laptop running windows 7 32bit and I want to use my webcam, I tried searching dell.com for drivers using TagService of my machine but didn't find any drivers for webcam,
I've tried ...
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Virtualbox and laptop webcamera
I am using Win7 64bit Ultimate on HP's EliteBook 8560p and I am running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit in virtualbox. How do I access integrated notebook's webcamera from virtualized Ubuntu? I have installed ...
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Force camera to be upside down in Windows 8
I have an Xbox 360 Live vision camera that I'm using as a general webcam for my Windows 8 PC. The drivers were automatically downloaded and installed perfectly, and it all works fine.
However, I ...
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Resources for webcam streaming with controls [closed]
I'm looking a project right that would require 2 webcams to be streamed and have the stream embedded onto a web page with the ability to pan/tilt/zoom.
I know most of this is going to be on the type ...
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HP Webcam mirror mode
I have HP Pavilion dv3 laptop with built-in webcam. But I can't run it in mirror mode.
How to do that. I recieve this image:
([A] - [B]) -> ([B] - [A])
But I want to get:
([A] - [B]) -> ([A] - ...
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HP DV4T-1200SE - Integrated Webcam not detected by Windows 7 64bit
I have an HP Pavilion DV4T-1200SE laptop that originally came with Windows Vista x64. I've since installed Windows 7 x64, and while the laptop runs fine but I positively cannot get it to detect the ...
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Trying to capture webcam images with Motion on Gentoo Linux
I'm trying to get up and running with the command-line V4L capture program Motion. I am running Gentoo Linux (amd64) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T530. I don't want to stream my images to the Web; I just want ...
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OSX 10.7 + virtualbox 4.2 + Windows 8 + iSight webcam = awfully slow
I'm running Windows 8 on VirtualBox on Mac OSX. I wanted to enable iSight webcam and went to USB Devices, and ticked iSight cam. At this point the Windows becomes so slow it is virtually impossible to ...
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How to make motion (surveillance_software, linux) record video file by schedule?
I would like motion to record a 1-minute video file each hour with no relation to motion events. Is it possible?
I cannot run ffmpeg in parallel on the same camera, because in linux you cannot open 1 ...
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No permission to access webcam on linux
I am using a raspberry pi with raspbian to capture webcam shots and upload them to a web server. However, when I rebooted just now I no longer have access to the webcam. I have no idea why this ...
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How can I stream recorded video from an IP camera?
I'd like to record a certain area of my house while I'm away from home.
I downloaded this app to turn my phone into an IP camera. I can then open up VLC on my computer and get a video stream from my ...
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Need to find stored Video Server password in Axis Camera Station Client Software
Does anyone know how where the video server password is stored within Axis Camera Station (ACS) software? I have a Windows user that auto-logs in with Admin privileges but I need to make a new Windows ...
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Streaming A/V from Linux webcam
I am planning on setting up a simple Debian Wheezy machine and connecting a Logitech Webcam C200 to it. I want the server to stream the camera's A/V feed over the internet to a specific server I have ...
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Webcam stops working after a few minutes
I am using an Asus U36JC with Chicony USB 2.0 Webcam. It was working fine so far, but now whenever I use it, it stops after a few minutes. I reinstalled the drivers, I even formatted my PC but ...
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Webcam “on” light when no app using it, Linux Mint
I installed the latest version of Linux Mint, and I've run into an issue that is both annoying, and also makes me kind of nervous.
Randomly while the computer is on, the Webcam light will turn on, ...
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Webcam stream doesn't work on Logitech E2500
I'm currently trying to get webcam streaming to work on a Logitech E2500 with ffmpeg.
Running the command gives me some kind of buffer length error.
pi@raspberrypi ~/ffmpeg-dmo-1.0 $ sudo ...
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xawtv/streamer webcam snapshots are “wrapped”, but streaming works
If I take a snapshot with my webcam, either through right-clicking in xawtv or through streamer -o snapshot.jpeg, the image is distorted. The simplest way to explain is through an example pictures:
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Webcam and drivers for it don’t work in Windows 8
The webcam on my Asus G51Jx doesn’t work now that I’ve upgraded to Windows 8.
I’ve looked on the Asus site, but they don’t seem to have drivers for Windows 8 yet (at least not for my laptop).
I've ...
