[pi8] Accessing a web cam

Steps followed trying to access a webcam

1. connected the webcam to the pie via USB
   • raspbian & S8 environment already installed
2. installed the fswebcam package

   sudo apt-get install fswebcam

3. To capture a picture from console

   fswebcam test.jpg

   • The file is generated but... the image is a black frame capture :-(
   • IMO reading from /dev/video0 is not working!
4. Conclusion: it is not so simple to get the data from camera
   • toDo: Needs more work
5. Next time we will try with V4l-utils

References

• USING A STANDARD USB WEBCAM
• Linux Media Kernel Documentation