On 14/06/10 18:58, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained as >> part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here: >> >> http://linuxtv.org/ > > Thanks. However, that's not an overly friendly site for non-project > developers - don't see any current tarballs, for poor, overworked systems > administrators to d/l and build. Do you know what I might need to be able > to run the motion daemon? All I've seen are vcs/mercurial, or git or > whatever repositories, and I do *not* see "version x.y.z stable", or > "current release". I know my manager's willing to let me look at smaller > stuff, but not to spend days on building and debugging (whether or not I'd > like to, I've got other stuff to do). AFAIK it's rolling development, so just grab the latest snapshot. At present the v4l-dvb tree is largely maintained by Douglas Schilling Landgraf and the gspca tree by Hans de Goede, both of Red Hat. The main v4l-dvb tree is here - just grab the latest tarball and build it. Here if you don't see it: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 Development work on the gspca branch appears to happen here: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/gspca/ before being merged into the main v4l-dvb tree. >> >> Elrepo.org has a version built for el5 that supports many gspca based >> devices: >> >> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-video4linux > > Don't need new versions, our video cams are years old, and inexpensive. We > want stable. However, do you have a clue as to what the el repo package > was built from? I just checked a CentOS mirror, and couldn't find either > video4linux, or v4l*. > Isn't it obvious from the package names? For example, kmod-video4linux-0.0-7.20100410.el5.elrepo is build from the v4l-dvb source code snaphot dated 2010-04-10.