[mythtv-users] webcam support in mythtv

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Germano wrote:

> Basicaly have the ability to monitor a webcam through mythtv. Either 
> through a seperate plugin, but probably it work better if we could 
> define it as a seperate tuner. That way when watching tv you can hit 
> that button to switch inputs, and monitor a webcam somewhere in the 
> house. I'm guessing this would actually not be myth related at all since 
> the groundwork is there already for supporting a webcam as along as it 
> is supported in linux.

Have you tried using MythBrowser to access the webcam?
Alternatively, if the cam provides a proper video stream (e.g. AVI, MPEG, 
etc) then you could use mplayer to receive the stream.

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