Earthlink USB camera (xirlink)

[Andy Green]

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On Saturday 17 January 2004 10:02, Mick Mearns wrote:

> Well thanks for the answers (and Alexandre Strube).
> But I cannot get it to work.
> Gnomemeeting detects it as /dev/video1 but will not download from it.

Not /dev/video0?

> I realize that it is detected as 352x240 but printed on the front of it
> is:
> "DIGITAL DSCpro True Digital VGA 640 X 480 -2MB"
> The base plate says: "DSCpro www.xirlink.com FCC ID: KSX-X9905"
>
> The images downloaded are indeed 640x480

A lot of these kind of devices are dual-mode, they can act as a webcam when 
tethered and a flash camera when on their lonesome.  Nothing to stop it 
taking stills at 640x480 and video at 352x240.

Here is the ibmcam site

http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/

and the faq

http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/ibmcamFAQ.html

My suggestion is to email the ibmcam author,  a fan of antispam techniques, so 
here is his email :-)

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