Dakota Camera - Drivers

Driver Install - Windows



The windows drivers are based off of the libUSB win32 drivers. Download sucr.zip from cexx.org. Extract and open up the readme.txt. You'll need to install libUSB, reboot and then run the main sucr executable.



Driver Install - Linux

With a recent (2.1.5 or greater) version of gPhoto, the camera just works.

However, something even cooler waits at the SPCA50X USB Camera Linux Driver page. Grab the driver (check the releases page) , then hit the download page of the Spca5xx page. Get spcaview and install it...

  • extract the tar file
  • drop into the directory
  • at a terminal type      make
  • su to root
  • type      make install

now for the cool bits... with your Dakota plugged in type:
     spcaview -o out.avi
The cam will start streaming to the file out.avi...ctrl+C will stop it...
A quick run through mencoder...
     mencoder out.avi -o test_out.avi -ovc lavc -ffourcc DX50
Gives us this guy (you'll need the xvid codec)...





It's times like these I really love Linux...




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