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From: John D. Pritchard jdp@cs....
Subject: QuickCam driver
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:07:53 -0500


> I got a QuickCam on monday and transformed a
> Linux program into a Plan 9 driver which serves
> /dev/camera and /dev/focus. /dev/camera has
> the same format than /dev/screen so most of
> fb/* programs work well with it. For example, 
> to display some video 
> 	while() drop '#C'/camera
> or to get a bigger picture
> 	resample 1280 '#C'/camera | transpose .......... | 9v
> 
> It has all the limitation of QuickCams, but for
> 109$ is a nice toy. We found it good for producing 
> face files.
> 
> If any one is interested just let me know and
> I'll post the driver.
> 
> 
> 

please, sounds cool.