xiaoyafeng:

I'd start by looking around the Monastery for possible webcam articles, then CPAN to see if any of the modules there (only two that I noticed) will work for you. If that doesn't get you anywhere, I'd check around in the Linux UVC driver & tools page. From there, you may find a useful command-line program, easy-to-call driver interface or some other way to talk with the Webcam. Once you find a way to talk to your webcam, then you can figure out where to start.

From my (very brief) browsing, I found that some systems have command-line tools to capture images (such as the Mac), while others have FTP and/or HTTP servers built into them, and others are USB devices, presumably with a relatively-standard method to talk to them. Since you've got a laptop, I imagine that it doesn't use FTP/HTTP, so I'd look around the HP forums for a command-line program.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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in thread control webcam by xiaoyafeng

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