[wellylug] dse webcams

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 23:08 +1300, John C Barstow wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 16:01 +1300, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> > what luck have people had with these?
> > 
> > am thinking of this:
> > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/439b95d8062c1882273fc0a87f99071a/Product/View/XH5096
> > 
> > anyone had this one going?
> 
> This one's a bit easier; I've had it working for some time. It uses an
> ov519 chip. The stock kernel driver for the ov51x series at this time
> still does not support it (frames are actual JPEGs rather than standard
> video format), but there is a patched driver available that works
> beautifully with the DSE model.
> 
> http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> Also the built-in microphone seems to be configured just fine as a
> standard USB audio device.

That was the conclusion I came to after searching for a while. Of course
today rastageeks is not reachable (arrrgghhh!) so am now searching for a
mirror. If anyone has a copy of the tgz then I'd appreciate it.
Meanwhile I pace the floor.

cheers

jamie