Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Great Software Review - flashcam

Well, I can't rave enough about this little baby...

But to make it short and sweet, for free, this gem allows your flash based camera utilities like ustream.tv and possibly facebook etc to be able to use v4l based cameras as if they were v4l2 based devices. It does this by creating a Vloopback device that translates every frame from the camera into the new virtual device. Thus your programs can now poll the new device and in real time use the frames.

BRILLIANT! absolutely useful software.

The flashcam project is available at http://www.swift-tools.net/Flashcam/

Cheers!

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