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Sony Vaio PictureBook Motion Eye Camera Driver

What is meye ?

The meye driver enable the use of video4linux compatible applications with the Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device driver (which can be found in the "Character drivers" section of the kernel configuration utility) to be compiled and installed (using its "camera=1" parameter).

Where I can download the driver ?

The driver was integrated in the official Linux kernel starting with the 2.4.7 kernel, and the latest version is always found in the latest kernel tree.

How can I configure the driver ?

Carefully read the file meye.txt which can be found in the Documentation/video4linux directory of your kernel source tree.

A local copy of this file can be read here for the 2.6 kernels and here for the 2.4 kernels

How can I capture video in compressed format or still pictures ?

The meye driver has the ability to grab ppm or jpg snapshots or mjpeg hardware compressed video. You need to download motioneye below in order to do that.
Download:
Filename Size Md5sum
motioneye-1.3.tar.bz2 8816 bytes b0ea7e98f106f08ecdea0dd05f30a152

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