[PD] getting started with webcam/pdp

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote:

> Husk 00 wrote:
>
>> Probally you have a webcam that use video4linux2 protocol, so you  
>> have
>> to use pdp_v4l2.
>
> Ok. My device indeed seems to be a version 2 camera, since this  
> shows up
> in dmesg after inserting the camera:
>
> [ 4305.015145] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [ 4305.080752] pwc: Philips webcam module version 10.0.13 loaded.
>
> Sorry for asking, but before I break my whole pd install:
>
> I installed pd-extended, which means I cannot uninstall pdp by itself,
> right? Is it possible to simply compile (and maybe not install) the
> patched pdp and somehow set pd up to use this instead, while having  
> the
> original pdp still there, and if so how?

You could pull out the pidip.pd_linux and use it with a different  
version of Pd-extended.

It would also be possible for Yves to distribute the new objects on  
their own, and single files per objectclass.  I could help with that...

.hc

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