Obsolete...This page describes software for Connectix-branded, parallel-port Quickcams (B/W and Color) that were made in 1996 and 1997. Many of the links below are likely to be broken. This page is for historical interest only. If you have a modern (Logitech, USB) Quickcam, look elsewhere. |
This list is still evolving. If you've written something cool, tell me what it does and where I can get it. Please let me know of any corrections or updates I should make to this page, or of any broken links. Thanks to all of the authors for this wealth of software!
There is no Windows software on this page. I don't have the Windows drivers, nor could I legally send them to you if I did. If you write to me asking for them, I will ignore you.
notes:
frame grabbers and still-frame webcams | videoconferencing | movies and streaming webcams | scripts | miscellanous software
| Package | Version | Date | Platforms | B/W | color | Features/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frame grabbers / webcam software | ||||||
| A2CAM | - | 13/Mar/2013 | Apple ][ | yes | no | dithered, 1-bit hi-res mode |
| cqc | 0.9 | 12/Dec/1996 | Linux | no | yes | despeckling, auto-brightness |
| cqcam | 0.90 | 26/Apr/2000 | Linux (x86 and ARM), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDI, LynxOS, QNX, Solarix/x86 | no | yes | X11 viewer+controls (with dithering), 640x480 images, despeckling, automatic brightness and color balance |
| gqcam | 0.8 | 24/May/2000 | Linux | yes | yes | GTK+-based QuickPICT clone for the V4L camera drivers |
| qcam | 0.91 | 21/Nov/1996 | Linux | yes | no | despeckling, automatic brightness and white-balance, edge detection |
| qcam-j | 0.91-j | 6/Oct/1997 | same as qcam, with jpeglib | yes | no | qcam 0.91 with JPEG support |
| qcamdriver for OpenBSD | 1.1beta2 | 5/Feb/1998 | OpenBSD | yes | no | Kernel-module qcam driver, Works with qcam's X11 viewer |
| qce-ga | 0.40c | 22/May/2002 | Linux | Quickcam Express and Web | Linux kernel drivers for the Quickcam Express and Quickcam Web | |
| qcread | 0.3 | 27/Dec/1997 | Linux, FreeBSD | yes | yes | hang prevention (timeouts), automatic priority/niceness |
| quickcam-vc | 1.0.5 | 14/Feb/2002 | Linux | Quickcam VC | Linux kernel drivers for the Quickcam VC (USB and parallel). May work with Quickcam Pro. | |
| QV2 | 2.2 | 17/May/1999 | OS/2 | yes | yes | despeckling, auto-brightness, fancy OS/2 GUI |
| SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) | 1.0.2 | 5/Mar/2000 | Linux | devel. | yes | X11 viewer+controls (with dithering), scanner extension module for The GIMP, despeckling |
| Stamp | 2.0.8 | 8/Mar/1999 | probably any Unix (GTK recommended) | yes | yes | Adds timestamps to images and uploads them to a web page using FTP; includes a GTK+ front-end. |
| XFqcam | 1.02 | 25/Jan/1996 | Linux | yes | no | X11 viewer+controls |
| Package | Version | Date | Platforms | B/W | color | Features/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Videoconferencing / multicasting | ||||||
| IVS | 3.6a | 6/Sep/1996 | Linux, FreeBSD (no capture in FreeBSD) | no? | yes? | PCM/ADPCM audio and H.261 video over UDP |
| nv (official) | 3.3beta | 8/Apr/1996 | Linux, FreeBSD (maybe others?) | no | no | The official release doesn't appear to have any Quickcam support |
| nv patches | 3.3beta | 23/Jan/1996 | Linux | yes | no | - |
| Q-SeeMe | 0.83b | 3/Feb/1998 | Linux | yes | yes | audio, video, and chat; compatible with Windows and Mac CU-SeeMe |
| VIC (official) | 2.8 | 22/Jul/1996 | Linux | yes? | no | expects an old, b/w-only version of qcam |
| VIC for cqcam-0.40a | 2.8 | 11/Apr/1997 | Linux | no | yes | despeckling, automatic brightness and color, improved frame rates |
| VIC for qcam-0.9pre5 English French |
2.8 | 4/Feb/1997 | Linux | no | yes | no sources (binary only) |
| Package | Version | Date | Platforms | B/W | color | Features/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movies / streaming webcams | ||||||
| qcam-grabber B/W color |
0.2/0.2c | 12/Jan/1997 | Linux | yes | yes | www video streams using Ulm web-video-1.3 nph-SyncImageStream |
| qcam-grabber | 0.91 | 11/Nov/1997 | Linux | yes | no | an update to the version above, now works with libqcam-0.91 |
| Movies / streaming webcams | ||||||
| qcwebcam | 0.3.2 | 23/Jul/1999 | Linux, FreeBSD | yes | yes | auto-brightness, works with qcread (above) and hooks into an http daemon to provide streaming JPG video |
| qmov | 0.1 | 9/Sep/1996 | Linux | yes | no | saves multiple frames, which can then be combined into an MPG file |
| Package | Version | Date | Platforms | B/W | color | Features/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scripts for webcam software | ||||||
| Poor Man's Cam | 1.2 | 18/Aug/1999 | anything with Perl 5.x and Net::FTP | yes | yes | PERL script to automate time-stamping, JPEG conversion, and uploading of Quickcam images |
| Rubycam | - | 18/Mar/2002 | Ruby with ftools and net/smtp | yes | yes | Ruby script to obtain, transform, and serve images from cqcam or other camera software |
| YetAnotherWebcamScript | - | 24/Sep/1997 | anything with Perl | yes | yes | webcam script to handle image expiration, lifetime, etc. |
| Package | Version | Date | Platforms | B/W | color | Features/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous (motion detection, image processing, etc) | ||||||
| Improv | 3.0 beta | 31/May/1999 | Linux | yes | yes | Image Processing for Robot Vision, uses xforms, comes with a Linux binary |
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