http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
The cameras I’m using were like $10 at walmart and are so crappy they don’t have a website. I can’t recommend using these.
Difficulty: the driver for these cameras is so cheap that it will cause windows to bluescreen if you plug two of them into the same computer.
Please, I beg you, find yourself something better, like a 2.0 MP autofocus webcam by rocketfish, like $15 on eBay.
I had recently installed mythbuntu in virtualbox on my laptop so I could test my video transcode scripts. It already had apache installed and configured, so i just installed imagemagick and created a symbolic link to my web dir.
raging@mythrage:~/pictemp$ ls
cam1.jpg cam2.jpg cam.sh montage.jpg pic
raging@mythrage:~/pictemp$ cat cam.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Loop forever
while :
do
# grab jpeg frames from dorgem
wget -O cam1.jpg http://192.168.1.5:8083
wget -O cam2.jpg http://192.168.1.6:8082
# cameras are mounted sideways. rotate left 90 degrees
convert cam1.jpg -rotate -90 cam1.jpg
convert cam2.jpg -rotate -90 cam2.jpg
# I’m still not sure about montage, but this seems to be working
montage cam1.jpg cam2.jpg -geometry +4+4 montage.jpg
done # Start over
sudo ln -s /home/raging/pictemp/ /var/www/pic
The mythbuntu VM was at 192.168.1.4, so I set the source of the ipcam to http://192.167.1.4/pic/montage.jpg and had it detect dimensions. I launched splitcam and skype. I have 2 accounts, so i signed in to different accounts and called myself, seeing video in stereo!
If this got any more ghetto, I might be on http://www.afrotechmods.com/
