[Techtalk] Digital video camera as webcam

[Wim De Smet]

On 12/4/05, Marize Pommot-Maia <marize at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd really appreciate your suggestions/help on how to go about using a
> digital video camera as a webcam (mainly with gnomemeeting or
> similar).  I know of a few pieces of software that enable them to be
> used as such with the-dark-side-of-OSes (M$).   The camera  I have
> (Sony - TRV900) uses firewire to communicate with computers and all
> applications I've tried so far want to use USB.
>

I checked out a webcam earlier and it's video got streamed to
/dev/video by the driver. Perhaps the digital camera does the same and
this can be used somehow from gnomemeeting or other? Just a thought.

Wim