Free logitech quickcam software for linux

This project is to produce drivers for the Logitech Quickam Express that will run popular linux software, such as video for linux.

This site hosts the Linux driver for the QuickCam Express and other QuickCam-related and QuickCam-compatible USB web cameras. The original work was done by Georg Acher and was known as qce-ga; Jean-Frederic Clere took that driver and created the first Video4Linux (V4L) driver, enabling popular V4L applications such as Xawtv to display pictures from the webcam. Since then, a group of developers around the world have evolved the driver into its current state, adding support for new cameras and chipsets as they have become available. In the process, the driver became known as qc-usb to reflect the fact that it supports a wide variety of USB-attached QuickCam cameras, not just the QuickCam Express.

The qc-usb driver supports the following webcams:

Dexxa Webcam
Labtec Webcam (old model)
LegoCam
Logitech QuickCam Express (old model)
Logitech QuickCam Notebook (some models)
Logitech QuickCam Web

Generally, any USB camera with a USB vendor ID of 0x46d and a USB product ID of 0x840, 0x850, or 0x870 (so, 0x46d:0x840, for example), should work. You can see the USB ID using operating system utilities such as lsusb in Linux.

Gqcam is a Linux clone of the QuickPict software that comes with the QuickCam. Originally it was written using GTK+ for the frontend, Alex Belits qcread for the backend, and a bunch of C to tie it all together.
It still uses GTK+ for the frontend, but as of version 0.2 it uses the Video4Linux interface as a backend. To compile it you will need GTK+, a Quickcam (one of the old greyscale parallel port ones), and a computer running Linux with Video4Linux support for the Quickcam compiled in or as a module.
It is currently fairly early in development, and now works with both the color and greyscale QuickCam. No, that doesnt include the QuickCam VC or any other ones (that I know of). Unfortunatly, Logitech/Connectix dont want to let us know how their new cameras work..
Main features:
- Brightness Control
- White Balance Control
- Contrast Control
- 3 Size Settings
- 2 Depth Settings
- Freeze Picture
- Snap Picture (saves in png, ppm and jpeg format)
- Command-line interface (good for webcam use)
- Snapping on a timer
- Support for the greyscale and color Quickcam, as well as CPiA based cameras and most any other driver that supports the read() command
The cameras I have gotten gqcam to work with or have had other people tell me it works with are:
- Greyscale Quickcam
- Color Quickcam
- Anything listed below this line I have not tested and know very little about
- Ezonics EZcam
- Creative Web-Cam II
- Philips USB PCVC675K
- Webcam III
- TerraCAM USB
- Plustek OptiCam 300U

Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse USB Linux driver is a driver for the USB Logitech MediaPlay mice.

The main purpose of this page is to share my experiences with Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse. Here you will find all the necessary information to put your MediaPlay mouse fully operational.

When i bought this mouse, the first thing that crossed my mind was the incompatibility between all this multimedia buttons and Linux. After googling about it, I noticed there was no useful information regarding this mouse, so I decided to put myself at work.

Did my reseach, and after a few hours browsing kernel source files, reading some usb documentation, code changes, I was able to make the bit map for MediaPlay multimedia keys.

The next step was to change usbmouse.c by Vojtech Pavlik allowing it to get and export mouse extra keys as keyboard entries using kernel input core support.

setpwc is a program that can set and list various settings of Philips (and compatibles) WebCams with the PWC chipset. If ioctls-commands fails, you have to upgrade to kernel 2.4.21 or more recent.
Main features:
- dump current settings
- set framerate
- store/restore settings in nonvolatile RAM
- restore factory settings
- set compression preference
- set automatic gain control
- set shutter speed
- red/blue-balance when white balance mode set to manual
- set automatic white balance mode speed and delay
- set led on- and off-time
- set electronic sharpness
- set backlight compensation
- set antiflicker mode
- set noise reduction mode
- set pan/tilt/zoom (Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere)
Enhancements:
- Certain resolution and framerate combinations need to be set at the same time or else the PWC chipset refuses them.
- With some compilers, setpwc would end up in an infinite loop.
- The serial number of the webcam is now displayed.
- A man page was added.
- The -d option can now be anywhere in the command line.

LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal display.
Enhancements:
- GPOs are back!
- new drivers: WincorNixdorf, LPH7508, Crystalfontz CF635, LUIse, LCD2USB, LEDMatrix, USBHUB, Logitech G-15, picoLCD, Electronic Assembly
- updated drivers: TREFON, Crystalfontz, BWCT, LCD-Linux, serdisplib, M50530, T6963
- new widgets: Image, Timer, Keypad, GPO
- new plugins: file, mpd, string::strupper(), KVV, iconv
- dynamic properties for most widgets (evaluated at runtime)
- bold font for graphic displays
- Layers
- graphic subsystem changed to full-color RGBA
- HD44780 power supply from parport
- lots of minor fixes and enhancements

Harmony Mod provides an extension for Mozilla Firefox, that adds new features to Logitech Harmony web site.

Harmony Mod is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, that adds new features to Logitech Harmony web site, used to configure Harmony Remote Control:

1. Reorder custom buttons (activities and devices);
2. Remove disturbing scrollbar around the buttons (activities and devices);
3. Direct access to buttons screen from home page (activities and devices).

Improv is a tool for basic real time image processing at low resolution, e.g. suitable for mobile robots.
Improv program has been developed for PCs with the Linux operating system and runs under X Windows.
Improv works with a number of inexpensive low-resolution digital cameras (no framegrabber required).
Main features:
- Modular design, allowing for easy integration of new functionality.
- Image processing operations are contained within plugins, compiled as statically
- linked files (.so), which can be loaded and unloaded at run time.
- Improved support for still image sequences.
- An abstract Camera class, simplifying the creation of new camera drivers.
- A completely customisable interface, allowing for complex image processing sequences.
- Written using the QT Windowing library.
- Portable autoconf/automake build scripts.
Improv also includes support for the following cameras:
- Quickcam grayscale camera (parallel port) [no longer sold]
- Make sure to set the protocol of your parallel port correctly (boot-up setting to either ECP or EPP should work).
- Quickcam Color V2 camera (parallel port) [no longer sold]
- Sorry, none of the newer QuickCams work - Connectix/Logitech refuses to disclose the low-level interface.
- Various web cameras with cpia driver, e.g. ZoomCam
- Video 4 Linux cameras
- and preliminary support for Video 4 Linux 2 cameras.
Improv displays the source image (from either a still image or a live camera) in the first window, while subsequent image operations can be applied to this image in five more windows. For each sub-window, a sequence of image processing routines may be specified.

USB Headset Buttonss purpose is to enable the Volume up and Down Buttons on my Logitech USB 30 Headset.

USB Headsets are very useful for VoIP applications like SIP Networks or Skype. On my headset I have volume buttons which need extra care to be taken of. This Application does it.