Re: Controlling a UVC Camera

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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:04:42PM +0300, David Miller wrote:
> 
> I am trying to write a java application that controls the UVC web cam in
> my PC (on Linux). I recently downloaded the Java lib java-usb (JSR80).
> It has an Swing GUI interface that displays the USB hierarchy as it
> exists in h/w ( similar to Greg K's USBView ). This JSR80 app however
> allows you to send data to the USB device, in this case the UVC device.
> 
> What I am looking for is how can I configure the UVC camera at this
> (byte) level so I can perform very basic things like:
> - turn on camera
> - turn off camera
> - stream out data
> 
> I'm looking for examples of configuring a UVC device and thought maybe I
> could first evaluate them at the lowest level.

Use the v4l2 libraries to interface with the camera.  To try to do it
"by hand" is a very large task, not one that I would recommend for
anyone.

good luck,

greg k-h
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