before I go to far into it, it does require java and a web server to be installed, I have python installed so I was able to utilize
the web server that is build into it.
I was going to make a package to install this, but due to fact that others may want to add it to there own web server and configure it
to their own liking I won't, it's not that difficult to install from the files just by coping them to their respective folders.
there is plenty of documentation in the readme's on setting it up in a custom way, though I didn't change anything to get it working
other than making a few small scripts to start, stop and run the viewer.
The webcam_server.tar.gz contains all the files extracted from deb packages the web-cam server and lib files for video for Linux converter
which was needed to get my camera to work.
" The preloadable libv4l1 wrapper which adds v4l2 device compatibility to v4l1
applications is called v4l1compat.so. The preloadable libv4l2 wrapper which
adds support for various pixelformats to v4l2 applications is called
v4l2convert.so. "
script to start the server
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#!/bin/bash -
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so;
webcam-server
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#!/bin/bash -
#stop webcam-server
killall webcam-server
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#!/bin/bash -
java -classpath applet.jar WebCam localhost 8888
I don't know if there any other dependencies but for java, it worked first time for me using quirk120NOP though I've added quite a number of lib files with other apps, I would say that a webcam should be working with another camera application to be sure