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Author: Carl Parrish
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Subject: camera applications
Nick how do you know which usb dev its plugged into? Under /dev on my
system I have like 16 possibly usb connection I have *no* idea which one
I actually plugged the camera into or how to figure that out.

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 14:30, Nick Estes wrote:
> > What is a good program to use for viewing usb cameras?
> >
> > Any with good command line options?
>
> It depends on the type of camera. For my Fuji, I prefer a nice tool
> called "mount". (-= A lot of the usb cameras out there look like regular
> usb mass storage devices, so just mount it like you would any other drive
> and use whatever graphics tools you like for dealing with the pictures
> (gimp, qiv, gview, etc).
>
> Unless, of course, it's a usb video camera you're talking about, for those
> I usually use xawtv, but any v4l software works fine (usually).
>
>     --Nick

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