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Logitech c920

Open Harrie1966 opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

I have a question about a USB webcam . it is possible to connect a USB Webcam C920 in pikrellcam . The pICAM works fine but would also like to connect a USB webcam .

Harrie1966 avatar Apr 23 '16 06:04 Harrie1966

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:30:02 -0700 Harrie1966 [email protected] wrote:

I have a question about a USB webcam . it is possible to connect a USB Webcam C920 in pikrellcam . The pICAM works fine but would also like to connect a USB webcam .

USB webcams can't work because for motion detection pikrellcam depends on the motion vector data that the Pi camera software interface provides in the h264 video data stream. That data is not available from USB webcams.

billw2 avatar Apr 23 '16 16:04 billw2