Hi all,

I am trying to capture images from two USB webcam simultaneously.

However everytime I run two instances of streamer like this:

streamer -c /dev/video0 -f rgb24 -r 1 -t 00:00:60 -o /home/mine/video0.avi
streamer -c /dev/video1 -f rgb24 -r 1 -t 00:00:60 -o /home/mine/video1.avi

on two different terminals, I got a kernel panic.

I have tried running the above commands as a background process (adding & at the end), so I can use a single terminal, but the result is the same: a kernel panic.

Does anybody know whether capturing images from two different USB webcams simultaneously is actually possible at all ?

Thanks for any help

BTW: my distro is slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.4.31 and my box is an AMD athlon 900 MHz and the webcam I am using are (from lsusb):

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0553:0002 STMicroelectronics Imaging Division (VLSI Vision) CPiA WebCam
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:0920 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express

and they are running great if I am running the streamer one by one.

Thanks again.

hi,
I dont think its possible to capture images from 2 USB webcams simultaneously.its similar to not able to play music from 2 different music players

what is the kernel panic message you get?

dear dr_zayus,

The kernel panic message I get is like this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d0fe5000

and then some stack dump info follows (like *pte and *pde that would have a different number on each occurance)

then

<0> kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Ininterrupt handler - not syncing

dear paragn,

I would think that running two instances of streamer would be no problem, (just like running two instances of vi for example). As long as they don't try to occupy/use the same resource (e.g. file, device etc.). In my case the v4l devices they are using are different anyway (video0 & video1) and the output are also different.

unless they are using the same some internal kernel stuff (like to do paging as the kernel panic message shows).

In any case I need to know whether anybody has tried to do the same before and get the same result.

Thanks guys.

hi aherrys,
oops i didnt notice that you are using two different devices. then it must not create any problem. i am checking what can be possible reasons for kernel panic