Webcam AND Slackware

# Lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1c4f:3000 SiGma Micro Micro USB Web Camera
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 04f3:0210 Elan Microelectronics Corp. AM-400 Hama Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub 

Now let us see if the webcam is compatible:  

Access this link and look inside for SiGma Micro, and see if it is compatible with the driver. 

Download and install the driver: linux-uvc-20080604_2.6.24.5_smp-i486-1alien.tgz 

# installpkg linux-uvc-20080604_2.6.24.5_smp-i486-1alien.tgz

# chmod 777 /dev/video0 

# modprobe uvcvideo 

# lsmod | grep uvcvideo  

# echo "modprobe uvcvideo">> / etc / rc.d / rc.local
Viewing a webcam with MPlayer


 # mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420  -vo xv tv://

Capture and encode in a resized mpeg4 video named movie.avi:

# mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:fps=15:height=480:width=640 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=640:480 -o movie.avi tv://