Webcam under Linux

1. Plug your webcam to USB port

2. Check whether the Webcam detected or not. Please do the following steps

# ls -l /dev/video0

crw------- 1 root root 81, 0 Sep 18 12:01 /dev/video0

If the output like above your webcam is detected in Linux.

3 . Install luvcview

Get the latest source from the following URL.

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/



# tar xvzf luvcview-20060207.tar.gz


# cd luvcview-20060207

# make

# make install


4. After the above steps run the following command


# luvcview -f yuv


Now you can view your face in your Desktop.



Enjoyyyy


Vasanth.T.M
Systems Administrator(Linux)
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