Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1126
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:02:05 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Monday 20 June 2005
 Number  1126
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Subjects for today
 
1   USB Webcam operational. : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
2  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
3  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
4  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
5  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
6  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
7  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
8  Re:  USB Webcam operational. : Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>

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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:30:14 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:   USB Webcam operational.

I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !

I have bought on  eBAY one of the listed webcams - a Logitech Quickcam 
Pro 3000 and pluged it in, fired up the software from netlabs and I got 
a window where I could see a snapshot of myself !

I then fired up WarpVision, which uses the same driver and I've got a 
good picture with motion !!

Now all we need is some software to run under OS/2 to do the transfer of 
video and sound.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:46:39 +0200
From:  Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Ed Durrant schreef:

> I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
> Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !
>
I can't find anything like that on www dot netlabs dot org. Yet another secret 
acts project?

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris

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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:29:09 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Hi Ed,

Ed Durrant wrote:
> I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
> Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !
Cool.  Webcam's aren't something that excites me but still good to hear 
that it's working for you.

I'm trying to find time at the moment to add usb support to Sane using 
Markus Montkowski's opensource usbcalls library.

Just a problem of not enough hours in the day :(

Cheers,

Paul.
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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:30:05 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Geez Kris - enough of the conspiracy theories...... I posted to the 
Voice list some months ago about this......

Also - there's now usb webcam support in the latest wvgui..

You do subscribe to the Voice news list don't you?

Kris Steenhaut wrote:
> 
> 
> Ed Durrant schreef:
> 
>> I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
>> Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !
>>
> I can't find anything like that on www dot netlabs dot org. Yet another secret 
> acts project?
> 
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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:17:45 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Kris Steenhaut wrote:

>
>
> Ed Durrant schreef:
>
>> I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
>> Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !
>>
> I can't find anything like that on www dot netlabs dot org. Yet another secret 
> acts project?
>
Hi Kris - no, no smoking mirrors:

This was announced as "found" on the netlabs FTP server a while ago:

package to support USB Webcams under OS/2.
    Package can be found at:
    ftp://ftp dot netlabs dot org/pub/wvgui/samples/wcamdemo.zip
    Included in the same directory at the netlabs FTP server is a file
    wcamlist.txt that states the following: As of this moment, the following
    cameras are supported:
     * Philips PCA645
     * Philips PCA646
     * Philips PCVC675
     * Philips PCVC680
     * Philips PCVC690
     * Philips PCVC720/40
     * Philips PCVC730
     * Philips PCVC740
     * Philips PCVC750
     * Askey VC010
     * Creative Labs Webcam 5
     * Creative Labs Webcam Pro Ex
     * Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro
     * Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro
     * Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro
     * Logitech QuickCam Zoom
     * Logitech QuickCam Orbit
     * Logitech QuickCam Sphere
     * Samsung MPC-C10
     * Samsung MPC-C30
     * Sotec Afina Eye
     * AME CU-001
     * Visionite VCS-UM100
     * Visionite VCS-UC300

Since that time, WarpVision has been updated and includes, I believe the 
same  of possibly a more advanced version of this code.

I guess it's time Jonas changes the text on os2warp.be saying there is 
currently no support for USB webcams, however until there is an 
application to use the output of the webcam other than on the local 
screen, the use of the driver is limited.  There have been OS/2 webcam 
programs however in the majority of cases, these have only taken 
snapshots and not streamed the video and audio.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:36:58 +0200
From:  Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Paul Smedley schreef:

> Geez Kris - enough of the conspiracy theories...... I posted to the 
> Voice list some months ago about this......
>
Really? A search at http://www.os2voice dot org/ for webcam gives me:

*Searching TITLEs of HTML documents for: *webcam /No matches...

/

> Also - there's now usb webcam support in the latest wvgui..
>
This latest togheter with the "latest" uniaud crashes my entire system. 
Had to revert to jan 2005 files to regain a working system.

And I still don't understand why a Netlabs project can't be found at 
Netlabs ... unless you are speaking about a non-Netlabs project of course.

> You do subscribe to the Voice news list don't you?
>
Even worse, I am member and I'm paying duly the annual fee.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris

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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:43:30 +0200
From:  Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Ed Durrant schreef:

> package to support USB Webcams under OS/2.
>    Package can be found at:
>    ftp://ftp dot netlabs dot org/pub/wvgui/samples/wcamdemo.zip

Thank you.

>   
>
> Since that time, WarpVision has been updated and includes, I believe 
> the same  of possibly a more advanced version of this code.
>
Latest WV + lastest Uniaud triggered a crash not only at mine but a 
severall systems. So, dunno whether it works or not.

> USB webcams, however until there is an application to use the output 
> of the webcam other than on the local screen, the use of the driver is 
> limited.

Better than nothing at all of course.

>   There have been OS/2 webcam programs however in the majority of cases,

Have been is very past tense, isn't it?

> these have only taken snapshots and not streamed the video and audio.
>
Wouldn't know where to find one.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris

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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:38:31 +0200
From:  Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut at hccnet.nl>
Subject:  Re:  USB Webcam operational.

Ed Durrant schreef:

> Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Ed Durrant schreef:
>>
>>> I know Paul  and some others will be interested to hear, that the  
>>> Netlabs USB Webcam capturing software appears to work !
>>>
>> I can't find anything like that on www dot netlabs dot org. Yet another 
>> secret acts project?
>>
> Hi Kris - no, no smoking mirrors:
>
> This was announced as "found" on the netlabs FTP server a while ago:
>
> package to support USB Webcams under OS/2.
>    Package can be found at:
>    ftp://ftp dot netlabs dot org/pub/wvgui/samples/wcamdemo.zip

Now my next question:

I've installed the files. Can I now purchase one cam mentioned on the 
list and assume it will work just like that?

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris

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