Specifies the desired framerate. Is an integer in the range of 4-30.
fbufs
- This paramter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing
+ This parameter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing
frames from the cam. This will help if the process that reads images from
- the cam is a bit slow or momentarely busy. However, on slow machines it
+ the cam is a bit slow or momentarily busy. However, on slow machines it
only introduces lag, so choose carefully. The default is 3, which is
reasonable. You can set it between 2 and 5.
- If a device node is already occupied, registration will fail and
the webcam is not available.
- You can have up to 64 video devices; be sure to make enough device
- nodes in /dev if you want to spread the numbers (this does not apply
- to devfs). After /dev/video9 comes /dev/video10 (not /dev/videoA).
+ nodes in /dev if you want to spread the numbers.
+ After /dev/video9 comes /dev/video10 (not /dev/videoA).
- If a camera does not match any dev_hint, it will simply get assigned
the first available device node, just as it used to be.
128 0x80 PWCX debugging Off
- For example, to trace the open() & read() fuctions, sum 8 + 4 = 12,
+ For example, to trace the open() & read() functions, sum 8 + 4 = 12,
so you would supply trace=12 during insmod or modprobe. If
you want to turn the initialization and probing tracing off, set trace=0.
The default value for trace is 35 (0x23).