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Philips ToUcam Pro (PCVC740K)
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The ToUcam PRO is produced and selled by Philips.
It has an exelent image in daylight and a very good in electric light.
The pwc kernel driver knows this webcam since 2.4.6 .
In most cases you can find this module here "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc.ko"
On http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ you will find an aditional modul named "pwcx". This module is binary only and is needed for compression of the usb stream.
Without "pwcx" you are fully GPL but limited to QSIF:160x120 @ 30fps and SIF:320x240 @ 5fps
With pwcx you can use SIF:320x240 @ 30fps and VGA
640x480 @ 15fps
The promoted 1280x960 snapshots are only interpolated and therefore not provided by pwc.
Promoted 60fps are not true. On windows you also get only 30fps. You can also interpolate frames ;)
pwc needs usbcore and videodev
pwcx need pwc
to load without pwcx:
modprobe pwc size=sif fps=5 power_save=1 compression=0
or
modprobe pwc size=qsif fps=30 power_save=1 compression=0
to load with pwcx:
first copy downloaded "pwcx.ko" to "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/" and update the module database with "depmod -a"
then load the modules
modprobe pwc size=vga fps=15 power_save=1 compression=2
modprobe -f pwcx
pwcx is kernelversion independent, but is most likely compiled on a kernel different from yours. Therefore you need the -f(orce) option to load the modul
I use the cam with Debian/sarge-testing and Linux 2.6.4-1-k7 (precompiled) and with
"pwc size=vga fps=15 power_save=1 compression=2 leds=0,0" to disable th camlight.
Any questions left? PM me!
regards phoBOS
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philips ToUcam Pro PCVC740K
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/sbin/lspci output:
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lsusb: ID 0471:0311 Philips PCVC740K ToUcam Pro [pwc]
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USB
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