Mounting a USB camera

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jan 10 22:51:14 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:42 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> Most cheap cameras don't use standard USB Class protocols, but use
> Vendor Specific protocols, and so require a different driver for each
> camera.  If the camera came with a disk for MSWindows, that disk
> probably contains the required drivers for MSWindows.

Sometimes they're hideously unstable on their intended OS...

Notwithstanding that, I wonder if it's feasible to use Windows drivers
in a wrapper, like some people do with network cards?

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