Web cam to olinuxino a13

Started by MMp131316, April 11, 2014, 10:49:54 PM

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MMp131316

Hello,
I want to ask if anyone has tried to connect with a web cam to olinuxino a13 and watched in real time streaming?
If yes please say how did you connect with the web cam and where did you get your driver.
I have tried to connect with a creative live cam to my board
I did apt-get install hwinfo
and hwinfo -usb to see the details from my usb and it sees my camera however i do not see any driver command install command.
I have read on forums and saw that ls /dev/video* should return /dev/video0 something like this however I do not have a video file, or folder in dev
If anyone has tried it please tell me how you did it.
Thank you for your time :)

MBR

There is not any specific command to install drivers (unless they are part of some package) or (for most of types) any place where you can download them. The required drivers are probably part of kernel, but they were neither enabled nor built in the kernel you currently use. You will have to determine what driver you will need (most of new webcams support UVC, but many other needs chip-specific driver, see http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Webcam_Devices) and compile kernel with this driver.

To determine what driver is required, you need USB vendor and device ID. You can get them in output of command lsusb. For example, my webcam has these:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:6340 Microdia

The two hexadecimal numbers (0c45:6340) are vendor and device ID. Google them and you probably will find what kind of driver you will need (my webcam needs UVC). Or you can enable all the USB webcam drivers and let the udev load it automaticaly.

N8body

Hey,yes i have done H264 Streaming with my A20. Here is my Blogpost about it:
http://n8body.blogspot.de/2014/04/olinuxino-a20-h264-encoding.html