{"id":202,"date":"2008-03-20T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T01:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/phillips-webcam-with-linux\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T11:41:46","slug":"phillips-webcam-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/phillips-webcam-with-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips Webcam with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought three Phillips SPC&nbsp; 900 NC webcams because they claim to support up to 90fps and I have had good luck using linux with the PWC drivers in the past.&nbsp; Plugged into a generic Ubuntu 7.10 install, I found that 640&#215;480 resolution was automatic, with 15fps. 320&#215;240 worked at 30fps. (I tried 160&#215;120 resolution, but wasn&#39;t able to get a speed faster than 26fps with that, so I&#39;m doubtful of the 90fps claim from Phillips, at least with the stock Ubuntu drivers.)<\/p>\n<p>This useful website looks to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainsoft.de\/projects\/pwc.html\">nice OpenCV support for this camera.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also archived the relevant files on my site, in case the above link goes down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/spc900nc-webcamtar.gz\" title=\"Webcam to OpenCV package\">Webcam to OpenCV package<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/spc900nc_webcam_manual.pdf\" title=\"Webcam software manual\">Webcam software manual<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought three Phillips SPC&nbsp; 900 NC webcams because they claim to support up to 90fps and I have had good luck using linux with the PWC drivers in the past.&nbsp; Plugged into a generic Ubuntu 7.10 install, I found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/phillips-webcam-with-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","category-goodlinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}