Solid for accessing webcams

Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:27 pm

Currently, the webcam drivers in Linux (and I believe also in Windows) are restricted to be accessed only once by one application at a time:

This idea is to have Solid access the appropriate driver for the webcam(s) (V4L/V4L2, I think?), then to send that output to any application that queries for webcam access:

(Notice that Flash still can't access the webcam driver until Solid has released it)

It could also provide a simplified, "solidified" (oh dear, someone stop me) API for developers to easily include webcam support in applications, and may even go as far as accessing multiple webcams at once and doing interesting things with that (combining two webcam images into one, "thumbnailed" at the bottom of another, for example, for video chat or video recording), though that's getting slightly technical.

Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.

Madman Registered Member Posts 593 Karma 1 OS	Solid for accessing webcams Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:27 pm Currently, the webcam drivers in Linux (and I believe also in Windows) are restricted to be accessed only once by one application at a time: This idea is to have Solid access the appropriate driver for the webcam(s) (V4L/V4L2, I think?), then to send that output to any application that queries for webcam access: (Notice that Flash still can't access the webcam driver until Solid has released it) It could also provide a simplified, "solidified" (oh dear, someone stop me) API for developers to easily include webcam support in applications, and may even go as far as accessing multiple webcams at once and doing interesting things with that (combining two webcam images into one, "thumbnailed" at the bottom of another, for example, for video chat or video recording), though that's getting slightly technical. Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	Solid for accessing webcams Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:27 pm I am pretty sure they are already doing this with phonon. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
djdihengo Registered Member Posts 8 Karma 0	Solid for accessing webcams Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:16 pm if solid access webcam, is it possible to use skype, amsn or any other app with webcam same time?