Install the camera driver and applications on the x86 Platform

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• Compile the kernel
• Install driver
• View the camera model
• Download
• Install
• Use the spcaview Tool
• Implemented through the C/S architecture
• Implemented through B/S architecture

Download the driver at the http://mxhaard.free.fr, kernel version is 2.6.11 or above with gspca, 2.6.11 or below with spca5xx (this is not absolute, because I used to drive in 2.6.17 ).

Directory [Hide] 1 Driver Installation 1.1 compile the kernel 1.2 install driver 1.3 view the camera model 2. Install the camera Application Download 2.1 2.2 Installation 2.3 use the spcaview Tool 3. Set up a network video monitoring server 3.1 implemented through the C/S architecture 3.2 implemented through B/S architecture

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Driver Installation [edit]

Compile the kernel

<M> video for Linux
V4l USB devices --->
<M> USB zc0301 [p] image processor and control chip support (varies from person to person)

These two options must be m, not *

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Install driver

1> Gentoo

Emerge-AV gspca-modules-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18-4-686 corresponds to kernel version)

2> Debian

apt-get insall gspcac1

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View the camera model

Run the command: lsusb. my options are: Bus 002 device 003: Id 0ac8: 301b Z-star Microelectronics Corp. zc0301 webcam.

On Linux, video chat tools include amsn and ekiga (gnomemeeting). If you are interested, go to the Internet to find installation and usage methods.

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Install the camera Application

On Linux, the camera applications include spcaview and spcagui. Here we only introduce the installation method of spcaview. Spcaview software package, including a set of tools: spcaview is used to record data streams, and can also be used to play data. spcaserv is a simple image capturing tool for the Streaming Media Server spcacat.

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Download

Spcaview is: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download spcaview depends on libsdl (using the SDL-config command), is: http://www.libsdl.org

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Install

1)

cd SDL-*
./configure ; make ;make install

2)

cd spcaview-*
make ; make install

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Use the spcaview Tool

1) capture images

spcaview -d /dev/video0 -f jpg -s 320x240

2) capture data streams

spcaview -f yuv -o ***.avi

For more information about spcaview usage, see spcatools HOWTO: http://mxhaard.free.fr/sview.html

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Set up a network video monitoring server [edit]

Implemented through the C/S architecture

1) run the server (spcaserv)

Spcaserv-s resolution-w ip Address: port, such as spcaserv-s 320x240-W 192.168.0.172: 7070

2) run the client monitoring data stream (spcaview)

Spcaview-s resolution-w ip Address: port, such as spcaview-s 320x240-W 192.168.0.172: 7070

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Implemented through B/S architecture

1) Configure Apache to set Apache's home directory to/var/www/html/webcam

CP-rfv spcaview-*/HTTP-Java-applet/*/var/www/html/webcam
Chmod 777/var/www/html/webcam/-R
CP index-sample.html index.htm (index-sample.html is the video homepage)

2) We can monitor the installation of the Java Plug-in through a browser. browser monitoring can be used for cross-platform monitoring, regardless of Linux, windows, MacOS, BSD, and other UNIX systems, as long as there is a graphical browser, You can monitor the range of the camera in the desktop environment. Because the web page on the server contains Java controls, you must install the Java environment. I am using the Firefox browser. Just give it a link:

ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so  /opt/firefox/plugins/

You can also create a link in the root directory of the current user:

mkdir ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins
cp libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/mozilla/firefox/plugins

(The plug-in the ns7-gcc29 cannot be used here, otherwise Firefox will report an error and Exit)
3) run the server (spcaserv)

Spcaserv-s resolution-w ip Address: port, such as spcaserv-s 320x240-W 192.168.0.172: 7070

4) use Web Monitoring Data Streams

Enter localhost or local IP in the address bar of Firefox.