Thursday, May 25, 2006
Finally!!! A USB webcam driver for Windows CE is available
For quite sometime I was looking for a USB webcam driver for my x86 development board. At last my wish has been fulfilled by Microsoft.
This driver has been "open sourced" (Microsoft Limited Permissive License) by microsoft. See here. The source code for the webcam driver is provided along with a sample application. It just worked fine on by development board. The driver works with webcams that support USB video specification. As soon as I plugged in the USB webcam on the host port, Windows CE popped up a message asking for the driver file path. I just entered the driver dll name as I had copied it into the \Windows folder.
You can try the driver and modify it to your needs. Atleast its worth trying....
This driver has been "open sourced" (Microsoft Limited Permissive License) by microsoft. See here. The source code for the webcam driver is provided along with a sample application. It just worked fine on by development board. The driver works with webcams that support USB video specification. As soon as I plugged in the USB webcam on the host port, Windows CE popped up a message asking for the driver file path. I just entered the driver dll name as I had copied it into the \Windows folder.
You can try the driver and modify it to your needs. Atleast its worth trying....
