SPCA50X USB Camera Linux Driver

News

12/11/2004
Things are now "back to normal", which means that the newest code is once again available from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html. You may wonder why we don't use CVS, but at the moment Michel Xhaard is pretty much the sole maintainer of spca50x, so it works quite well this way. But in time we do plan to put the code back into CVS, and make a real spca50x release.
posted by tgc

See older news.

About

This is a GNU/Linux kernel driver for USB cameras based on Sunplus spca50* and some spca5** chipsets; below is a list of supported cameras and bridges. The driver is currently under heavy development, and it is released in the hope that other developers will join us, test it and help improve it.

Supported bridges

Bridge	Sensor	Status	Comments
spca500	SAA7113	Fair	Support for raw JPEG
spca501	SAA7113	Fair
spca504	OV9620	Fair
spca505	SAA7113	Fair	Brightness and contrast are tricky
spca506	SAA7113	Untested
spca508	OV6620/PAS106B	Fair	Only support for uncompressed stream
spca533a		Fair
spca561a		Fair

Contact

There are two ways of contacting the developers of the spca50x driver:

The mailing list is where you can send comments, suggestions and questions.
As a second option you can go to our development channel: #spca50x, hosted by the FreeNode IRC network, and ask your questions there.