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Sample output: a screen capture of xcqcam

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Description

cqcam is a free Color QuickCam (PC/Parallel) control program for various PC Unixes, written by Patrick Reynolds. It is independent of Scott Laird's qcam package and those derived from it and has several features that they do not. cqcam has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris/x86, BSDI, QNX, and LynxOS, and could probably be ported easily to (almost) any other PC Unix out there.

cqcam supports the Color Quickcam and Color Quickcam 2. It does not support B&W Quickcams, the Quickclip, the Quickcam VC, the Quickcam Home, the Quickcam Express, the Quickcam Pro, or the Quickcam Web. Logitech is to blame for that. See the FAQ for details.

Features

• Automatic brightness and color adjustments
• Batchable output for webcams
• Support for "millions" (24bpp) and "billions" (32bpp) modes
• Nearly lossless on-the-fly despeckling (removal of the "Christmas lights" effect)
• X11 front-end with optional GTK+, XView, or Tk support and Floyd dithering for 8bpp displays
• Support for images up to 640x480
• 24-bit PPM or JPEG output.
• Streaming output for use as a continuous-feed webcam.
• Movie mode for capturing many images in a row.

Requirements

• PC/Parallel Color QuickCam
• Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris/x86, BSDI, QNX, or LynxOS
• X11 for xcqcam (optional); MIT shared memory (SHM) recommended
• GTK+, xview or Tcl/Tk for the control panel (optional)
• libjpeg for JPEG output and webcam support (optional)

Older versions

• cqcam-0.45a (40K)

The Loyal Opposition

There are a bunch of other drivers for PC Unixes (and a few for OS/2) at http://piki.org/patrick/quickcam/.
For a Windows frame-grabber and webcam system, go to http://www.kolban.com/webcam32/.

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