Guide to test USB camera with luvcview

Recently, I was focusing on USB camera integration to ARM- Android device.

Firstly, share the steps to test USB camera with luvcview user space application.

Test envriment: linux kernel 2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 21:21:01 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

1. Download the luvcview source code from linuxidc:

http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-06/62341.htm

extract the tar and find the README guide. Following the README guide, goto http://www.libsdl.org to install the SDL firstly.

Then, install the X11 using apt-get install libx11-dev .

2. Goto luvcview-20070512 folder, then execute make command to compile the source code.

3. How to fix the link error?

Makefile change below line

CFLAGS += -DUSE_SDL -O2 -DLINUX -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" -I$(SDLFLAGS) $(WARNINGS) -ldl -lm

reference url:

http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid-22263887-id-1778992.html

4. chmod 755 luvcview, then ./luvcview, it will fail.

Then execute luvcview with below argument:

luvcview -d /dev/video0 -f yuv -s 320x240

http://blog.youkuaiyun.com/xbpkid/article/details/7167778

OK. Very Good ! Now USB camera works~~