Even though today many webcams are provided with hardware encoding capabilities such as the Logitech HD Pro series, we will focus on those without this capability, as we want to have a low budget project. You will then learn how to reuse any webcam left somewhere in a box because it is not being used. At the end, you can then create a low cost video conference system as well.
As you plug in the webcam, the Linux kernel will detect it, so you can read every detail it's able to retrieve about the connected device.
We are going to see two ways to retrieve the webcam we have plugged in: the easy one that is not complete and the harder one that is complete.
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