A webcam is a device that records video and then uploads that video to a computer.

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Capturing video with motion cant go higher than 640x480

I got a webcam that supports images up to 1920x1080 but when i use motion to capture video it can only go as high as 640x480. if i specify anything higher in the motion.conf the webcam doesnt return ...
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Logitech QuickCam Messenger Communicator webcam drivers

Im trying to figure out if I can get the logitech messenger communicator webcam working with the Pi. (no, its not on the supported software list) In searching for drivers, I came across this link ...
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Raspberry pi video streaming image error

I have a problem with video streaming on raspberry pi. When I want to stream the webcam's image trough the network, the image has many errors, like fall apart, other colors and lot of garbage appear ...
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Speed up C code running USB webcam

I have some code that I have adapted to run on a headless Rpi using a usb webcam, it is running a bit slow, so my questions are: If I were to use the GPI pins with a dedicated webcam would that be ...
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How can I stream h264 video from Raspberry camera module via Apache/Nginx for remote stream view?

So I got the Raspberry Camera today and got stills working fine. Capture an image in jpeg format: raspistill -o image.jpg Capture a 5s video in h264 format: raspivid -o video.h264 ...
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Advice on RPi taking high res pictures at timed intervals

I'm working on a project with my Raspberry Pi at the moment. I'll give a brief summary of what I'm trying to achieve. I would like my RPi to take high resolution pictures through a USB webcam at ...
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Raspberry pi with webcam, motion, and FTP

I have a webcam connected to my Raspberry Pi, and I am running Motion to make pictures and upload this to an FTP server. With my current configuration, wput/Motion uploads ~3-10 pictures/second, ...
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Commands to “simulate” removing and re-inserting a USB peripheral?

I use motion on a Raspberry Pi, and sometimes the camera feed hangs. The camera is physically mounted, and it is kind of awkward to remove the cable and inserting it again, so I was wondering: is ...
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FFServer streaming “issues”

I'm hoping to stream a webcam to browsers from my Pi using ffserver. I've seen a number of similar tutorials such as this one. They all say I need to compile it because the default version has ...
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Webcam issue apparently not related to usb system

There are many posts on the web regarding the apparently poor usb system performance of the Raspberry Pi. In fact it seems that the usb system causes numerous problems and that there is ongoing work ...
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Getting “No rule to make target 'modules'. Stop.” error when running makefile. What does it mean?

I'm trying to get a webcam working with my Raspberry Pi How do I install webcam firmware on the Raspberry Pi? I found a possible way of doing this with gspca. So I downloaded the file and unzipped ...
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Is a home surveillance system possible using the RasPi?

I've been searching a while trying to find a way to have a Home Surveillance system using the RasPi, but unable to find a solution that includes all of the following. Would someone know of a solution ...
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How do I prevent Motion from using up the entire SD card?

I have a webcam running with Motion. It's all working fine, however, after a while it stops working. This appears to be because it is filling up the /tmp/motion directory with jpegs. (Clearing out ...
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How do I install webcam firmware on the Raspberry Pi?

I want my Raspberry PI to be able to use this cheap webcam I bought from China. Identified as 17a1:0128 TASCORP After quite a bit of searching I found a post from someone who had got it to ...
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Anyone knows how to link Raspberry pi to Kinect camera?

Anyone knows how to link Raspberry pi to Kinect camera? or can recommend a webcam. I recently tried a logitech linux-compatible, but couldn't install it on the debian
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Motion - root have no access to the webcam

Well.. i had an installation with motion running as webcam-server .. i reinstalled the linux-distro and reinstalled motion, now the root have no access to the webcam. The "pi" user still can access ...
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Webcam disconnects after a few hours of running motion

I've been working on getting a Raspberry Pi webcam set up, thanks to a how-to post on PingBin. However, I cannot get past a problem where the camera becomes lost after a few hours of taking snapshots. ...
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Pi for Google+ Hangouts

I'm trying to find out if the Pi could work for a Google+ Hangout. I'm guessing no but wondering if anyone is trying to get it to work. Will the new webcam version make it easier? We want to set up a ...
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Webcams without external power

With a resolution no higher than 640x480, what is the frame rate I should expect for streaming? Are there any cameras in the 10-50 dollar range that will get me 20-25 FPS, possibly with some manual ...
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What do I need to setup in order to push a video stream to the web

I'm interested in using a Raspberry Pi and some webcam to stream video to the web. First, I would need to know how to setup the webcam. Second I would like to know if it is possible to push a ...
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Streaming H264 with Logitech C920

I have a logitech C920 webcam. It has the ability to directly encode the video in H264. I want to reproduce what was done with a Beaglebone, but using a Raspberry Pi: send a H264 stream to the ...
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Raspberry Pi becomes unresponsive when running opencv

I have successfully installed OpenCV on my Raspberry Pi and have been fooling around with some simple webcam streaming, live canny-edge detection, and so forth, all using basic C and C++ code. ...
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Logitech c170 webcam not working

I've connected a Logitech c170 webcam to a Raspberry Pi via an externally powered USB hub. It's running Raspbian Wheezy. The camera is detected by the Pi when plugged in, and running VLC even causes ...
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Dump video from webcam to file

I am trying to capture a video with a webcam (Logitech c270) and dump it to a file. However, at 1280x960, I get about 3fps using ffmpeg with the following command: ffmpeg -f video4linux2 ...
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Enabling high resolution capture from web camera

I'm experimenting with using the Pi for web cam streaming and motion detection, with the motion app. Trying a few different web cameras and combinations with other hardware, I've found one combination ...
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How do you install a uncvideo driver for a Logitech C910?

According to the verified peripheral http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals my Logitech C910 HD camera should work with the "uncvideo" driver. How do I install this driver? Is it a simple as ...
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e-CAM30_USB camera with raspberry pi

Can I use this USB camera with raspberry pi? When I use this with beagle board xm it does not require any driver. Could you please give me a solution?
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Unable to grab image from usb Webcam

I would like to take snapshots from an USB webcam Firs I check the device: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 ...
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How can I find out if my webcam is compatible? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can I use a USB webcam? Is there an official or other list of webcams that have been tested on the RPi?