The same problem happens to me on my laptop ohci port, but I can get two images on my desktop uhci port. Some body told me that the camera drivers gets the entire USB bandwidth, and a second camera can not get any bandwidth. One way around is to have a second USB port, or buy a card that has each USB port separate (not shared). Ted V wrote: > hello, > > I have 2 toucam pro (philips) on the 2 usb ports, and i would like to use > both of them. > I send the datas to vgalib which print them on the screen, but it doesn't > work well. > > In particular, the second device opened doesn't get any picture from the > cam. It may come from the /dev/video files I created : > mknod /dev/video1 c 81 0 > chmod 666 /dev/video1 > and > mknod /dev/video2 c 81 1 > chmod 666 /dev/video2 > is this the right way to create the device files needed ? > > Then i have some problems with the VIDIOCMCAPTURE which doesn't work with > the first frame... > > To put it in a nutshell, is there any help or program example to make two > cameras work in the same time ? > > Thank you for any answer, > Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list -- Ted Huntington Programmer Analyst I Main Library University of California, Irvine PO Box 19557 Irvine, CA 92623-9557 emesgs: thunting@xxxxxxx web page: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~busoff/webpages/ted.htm 8:00a-12:00p Business Office (949) 824-8926 1:00p-5:00p Multimedia Resource Center (949) 824-1674
