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Known Supported Devices:

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• Creative Labs Video Blaster WebCam 3 USB, Model CT6840
• BT848 Grabber ( WinTV PCI Radio )
• Hauppage PCI board - BT848
• Philips USB WebCam - PCVC680K Vesta Pro one
  Working with gspy 0.1.5 and Redhat 7.2 with kernel (2.4.9-13). Use pwc and pwcx modules.
• Phillips PWC690
  Thanks to Hervé BOTERMAN, the PWC690 is now supported in version 0.1.5 Use 'modprobe pwc size=vga fps=5' and 'insmod -f pwcx-i386' to connect the webcam to the usb port and set it by default to 640x480 and 5 frame per second. The pwcx module must be loaded to enable image compression of the webcam.
• Matrox marvel g200 card and an Hitachi Hi8
  Cherubini reports: I would like to let you know that gspy works for me, using linux debianwoody, kernel 2.4.6 with matrox marvel g200 card and an hitachi Hi8videocamera...
• D-Link DSB-C300
  Daniel reports that all that was needed was to build the kernel with v4l, ov511 and usb-uhci modules, then modprobe usb-uhci, modprobe ov511
  Phil reports: Thanks for gspy. I just opened my DSB-C300 camera and tried to install it on my win2k machine. Crash crash the darn thing wont even boot with the camera installed. Well back to linux. RH 7.1 Sony PCG F430
  all I had to do was:
  mv /dev/video /dev/videodir
  ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
  /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci
  /sbin/modprobe ov511
  gspy
  and it all worked....
  cool thanks
• AVerMedia InterCam-Elite (OV511-based)
  Huib reports:
  I tried your program and it works great.Gspy will be used to catch a bike thief(-ves) who stole 6 bikes fromseveral roommates.Anyway, it's a great program and it works without any extra afford on aredhat 7.1 system with a (OV511-based) 'AVerMedia InterCam-Elite':The v4l driver is loaded automatic when the USB camera is plugged in theport. The webcam supports 640x480 so the program works withoutmodifications.
• avaks AvCam USB-600 (OV511-based)
  Alain reports:
  Thanks for your very nice program and installation instructions!I'm using Redhat 7.1 (2.4.2-2). If you'd like to check out mycamera's specs.The only thing I had to do was link /dev/video->video0.
• Maxell Maxcam USb(OV511)
  
• Dexxa Webcam (USB 352*288)
  see changes under 'User Feedback' below for a patch.
• Logitech QuickCam (352x288).
  Blaine reports being able to compile the code and obtain a working systemwith the logitech camera.
• Creative Webcam5 on Debian with with gnome2.
  
• Kensignton 'svga webcam' using the se401 module on a linux 2.4.19 kernel.
  alejandro reports gspsy 0.1.6 works brilliantly with his kensignton camera.
• Intel CS330 Create and Share Camera
  Ben reports the Intel driver http://spca50x.sourceforge.net is still under development and there are some issues with the brightness of the picture, but it still works.
• Philips ToUcam Pro (PCVC740K) with Red Hat 8.0/kernel 2.4.18-14
  (compiled using instructions for the Red Hat 8.0 fixes)
• Please drop me a line if you have success with your camera.

Changelog:

To Build This Project:

To build the application from the glade project in the gspy directory,enter:

./autogen.sh
make
su
rootpassword
make install

To run the application, enter gspy at the shell prompt. Gspyshould open the video device and then popup the runtime display windowsimilar to that shown above. If the open fails on the video device, gspywill exit with an error message. You may need to check and see that theusb stack is loaded if you are using a usb web camera device. To get yourusb camera running, you may find the Linux USB guide useful (see referencesection below). Gspy is quite cpu intensive due the the image processingload. I run it on a 500mhz PIII and it puts a 25% load blip on every 2seconds. It should run on most pentium class computers. Gspy creates subdirectoriesunder a user specified location for each date it runs. All jpegs capturedfor the day are placed in the subdirectory. Use the menu option file/Makempegto select one of the daily directories and start the mpeg generation process(done in the background at a nice priority). You must have the Berkeleympeg tools installed (mpeg_encode binary) for this command to work.

ToDo:

• help generating the internationalization translations would be appreciated.
• add support for multiple USB cameras, maybe 4 as a first pass
• automate the mpeg file generation once per day (currently a manual process)
• improve compensation for camera AGC jumps... causes a lot of false alarmsunder certain lighting conditions
• implement video for linux 2 device interface
• reverse engineer compression modes and update ov511 driver to get fasterframerates
• support for smaller video image sizes
• support alternate video fomats such as avi, motion jpeg or divx for the 'action movie'
• write the user documentation

Not Working?:

1. USB device questions:linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net

User Feedback:

References

1. Homepage -- gspy.sourceforge.net
2. CVS server -- cvs.gspy.sourceforge.net

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