I'm working on a C++ application that uses OpenCV/ffmpeg to capture video frames from my built-in webcam (Studio XPS 13). This application is really sensitive to those auto light adjustments that the webcam driver does.... is there any way I can change this behavior? Either via some webcam driver settings app, or in code (you may suggest a different library).
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Well, I'm not sure what the most general way to do this is, but I know that the module for my webcam (ov511) has options to tweak all these settings... try running modinfo for the kernel module.
Julian Squires
2009-04-24 21:39:21
Can you be a little more detailed? I don't know how to use `modinfo`. What args do I need to pass to it?
Mark
2009-04-27 20:50:17
You'll need to determine what kernel module is being used for your webcam. You can examine the tail of `dmesg` after connecting it, as well as looking at what modules are loaded with `lsmod`. Then you just run `modinfo foo` where foo is the module name (ov511 in my case).
Julian Squires
2009-05-05 19:27:32