PWCX driver for Philips USB Webcam

Icepick3000 · 07-25-2010, 08:34 AM

Hi all,

I need to bring an old philips usb webcam back to life using the PWC and PWCX drivers on a 2.4 kernel.. I found the PWC driver but the PWCX drivers.. can't find them anywhere.. they used to be available for download on the webcam nemosoft.. but it seems like they are no longer there.. anyone have this old driver laying around? File name should be something like pwcx-8.4.tar.gz ... I googled it but little luck so far..

Regards,
Alex

evo2 · 07-28-2010, 11:06 PM

IIRC at some point the compression algorithms were open sourced and included in the main pwc driver. As such there was no need for pwx anymore.

Are you able to get the full resolution picture from the camera?

Cheers,

Evo2.

Icepick3000 · 07-28-2010, 11:09 PM

No, I don't get full resolution.. I am using a very old linux distro.. from past experience I know I need to load the PWCX by hand.. upgrading the linux is not an option for this (embedded) system..
So I need the old pwcx tarball..

evo2 · 07-29-2010, 01:15 AM

Hmm, sorry I can't find pwcx anywhere either. Since it seems os hopfully someone will know where to look for pwcx.

Also, for completeness: It seems I misspoke earlier: the algorithms weren't open sourced they were reverse engineered.

Evo2.