webcams and gspca

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 25 18:41:42 UTC 2007


On Sunday 25 March 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 16:59 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
> > I have managed to get my webcam - a Logitech model - working using the
> > gspca drivers from http://mxhaard.free.fr/ . However, everytime there is
> > a new kernel available I have to recompile it. Is it available on a repo
> > like Livna have done with the nVidia drivers and kmod-nvidia.
>
> I like leaving it as it is, so I can recompile (which takes less than a
> minute) to have it immediately available.
>
> > Secondly, even though I can view the output of the webcam in the
> > configuration window in Kopete, I can't get anyone else to see it and I
> > can't view anyone else's that are online.
>
> I finally beat that problem some time ago, but for the life of me, I
> cannot remember exactly what I did. Have you tried ekiga yet?
>
I never did get it working.  It works with amsn though.  Colour was not ideal 
on the gspcav1 webcam.  The Philips one gives much better colour.

> > I have read that I may need to change some settings in my router for port
> > forwarding. Does anyone know if this is true and if so what ports,
> > bearing in mind that I use MSN on two different computers.
>
> Ahha! Here's some pointers I found in the way back machine by Paulo
> Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I do not think there is anything wrong with the driver for
> most cameras. Mine (Creative, ntsc), has pretty acceptable colors.
> But there are many issues involved to stream audio and video.
>
> 1) Enough bandwidth (minimum 600Kb for download and upload)
> 2) Firewall rules
> 3) NAT forward rules (sometimes, STUN is unavoidable)
> 4) A known protocol
>
> I have used my camera with a home solution, called freemeeting,
> and I could send and receive audio and video very well. 

I've not come across this.  Is it OSS?


Anne




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