On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Anthony Oliver <
email...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I verified this and indeed it appears to be true in some cases. I was able
> to do 4 cameras at once, but it seems to be the model of camera used. If I
> used my integrated camera with 3 other logitech cameras everything would be
> fine, but using a generic webcam I could only get 2 cameras working at once.
Ok, I have dirt cheap webcams. They register in syslog as
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1e4e:0102)
http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/
1e4e:0102 USB 2.0 Camera Etron Technologies
> Since we are reliant on video4linux as our camera support it maybe an issue
> with that.
> I am just using the v4linux drivers that are included in the
> repositories but you could always try building v4linux from scratch to see
> if that solves your issue.
In my case does 'building v4linux from scratch' mean building the latest
uvcvideo drivers? Or does 'v4linux' imply more than a collection of drivers?
Thanks,
Kent