[cpia] Re: 2 cameras streaming at once?

[Peter Pregler]

Hi,

I just got a second USB camera and can now run a parport and a usb
based camera at the same time without any problems. I tried the
version in the usb-backport
(usb-2.4.0-test2-pre2-for-2.2.16-v3.diff.gz) and the 1.1-version from
the web-site. So at least one parport and one usb seem to work. I will
get a few usb-cameras in a few weeks. Until then I cannot verify if
the usb-driver is correct with regards to more than one camera. And I
am right now a bit too lazy to do a code review of that since I did
not write that portion of the code. Can anyone of the USB-guys have a
short look at the code?

-Peter

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Jobe Bittman wrote:
> I'm a new member to the list. I have a Creative WebCam II and a Ezonics USB 
> camera. I tried kernel-2.4-test5 support but it couldn't use 2 cameras at 
> once with gqcam. So I followed advice I found on the mailing list archive. 
> I went to kenel 2.2.16 and applied the USB backport patch. I compiled usb 
> and V4L support into my kernel but not CPiA support. I inserted the 
> videodev and cpia modules and I can capture one device at a time. I have n 
> SMP machine so I tried it with a uniprocessor kernel adding and subtracting 
> -__SMP__ to the module compile but that didn't make a difference. Is anyone 
> on the list at all able to see 2 video streams at once? What cameras are 
> you using? Which kernel versions? Can I run two instances of gqcam or do 
> they conflict with each other? What other programs hpeople had luck with.
> 
> Jobe Bittman

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