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| author | Antonio Garcia-Dominguez <antonio.garciadominguez@uca.es> | 2012-02-11 13:24:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Antonio Garcia-Dominguez <antonio.garciadominguez@uca.es> | 2012-02-11 13:24:12 +0100 |
| commit | 125c5d92de9f71db5fd452ee0de9da085be6b819 (patch) | |
| tree | 289f993b89932e3d9ffe21b03a4c3ecfd6581238 | |
| parent | f26873abc4107743b8cc67883869808aa8404173 (diff) | |
prepare-videochat.sh: use latest /dev/video* file as webcam, for systems with multiple webcams
| -rwxr-xr-x | prepare-videochat.sh | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/prepare-videochat.sh b/prepare-videochat.sh index 16960f7..7f0ae5f 100755 --- a/prepare-videochat.sh +++ b/prepare-videochat.sh @@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ WIFI_IP=192.168.2.122 # Port on which IP Webcam is listening PORT=8080 -# Device created by loading v4l2loopback. If you don't have any other webcam in your computer, the default will -# be fine. Otherwise, you will have to try with /dev/video1, /dev/video2 and so on. -DEVICE=/dev/video0 - # URL on which the latest v4l2loopback DKMS .deb can be found V4L2LOOPBACK_DEB_URL=http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback-dkms_0.4.0-1_all.deb @@ -127,6 +123,11 @@ if ! has_kernel_module v4l2loopback; then fi fi +# Use the newest /dev/video* device as the webcam: this should help +# when loading v4l2loopback on a system that already has a regular +# webcam. +DEVICE=$(ls -1t /dev/video* | head -1) + # Decide whether to connect through USB or through wi-fi IP=$WIFI_IP if ! can_run "$ADB"; then |