Hi


I'm working on a robotics project around a NSLU2 (or "slug") running debian (command line only).


I need some advice about the posibilty of adding a webcam

for obvious reason's i'd like to keep it low-cost, so 'im looking for:

A. advice on what (pref low cost) webcam i schould get. (i've had my eye on aLogitech QuickCam E1000 but would that work ??? )

B. advice on what program to use in order to stream video to another computer?

thank you very much in advance





for the intrested; i'm replacing the innards of a RC tank (Heng Long) with an NSLU and an arduino mega, connecting it to my network over wifi .... )

Hi corosus

http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html


I hope this is of help.


Jnike

If you have access to ssh, I had a similar problem, and came up with a rather sneaky solution, at least I thought...

#!/bin/bash
ssh user@remoteip ffmpeg -b 100K -an -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -r 10 -i /dev/video0 -b 100K -f ogg - | mplayer - -idle -demuxer ogg

It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it works really really well for webcamming between my girlfriend and I.

Basically the idea is to ssh into the remote computer, use ffmpeg to convert the raw webcam feed to a compressed format (ogg in this case) and then pipe it out over stdout. On the other side I have mplayer read from stdin. This way you are sending only the video over the network, the local computer does all the processing. You have the added advantage of being able to tune ffmpeg to your specific needs as far as resolution / bandwidth stuff...