Support for USB Video Class devices

[Bob Grant]

Hello,

We are trying to get a USB web camera to work on our android tablet
(Acer Iconia a500 Tablet w/ Honeycomb 3.1) but have been unsuccessful
so far.

Could you please recommed a way to get a USB web camera to be
recognized by the android os? I read a recent post that recommends
recognizing the usb driver that gets loaded for the specific webcam on
a regular linux machine and "Compile that driver for the tablet's
kernel." But the kernel's source has not yet been released.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Bob

[hedwin]

The first thing you would need to do is configure the kernel to support this type of device.
So unfortunately you have to wait for the kernel source being available.

To enable the feature in the kernel you go to:

Drivers -> Multimedia support -> Video Capture Adapters -> V4L USB devices

And enable at least: USB video class and UVC input events device support

Anything else depends on the device to want to use.

Cheers,

Hedwin

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