OpenQCE stands for "Open QuickCam Express", it intend to drive your Logitech Quickcam Express from OpenBSD userland (using ugen(4)). The Logitech Quickcam Express is a little USB webcam with a 360x296 CMOS sensor (Agilent/HP HSDC1000) and an undocumented STV0600 ASIC. OpenQCE is currently only compatible with one version of this product as I only own one Quickcam Express, I might add support for other webcams in the future. OpenQCE is a cheap and ugly piece of code, I welcome generous donations in good BSD-Licensed code, patches or money.

Documentation

I got most of my information from reverse-engineering and reading websites about similar drivers or similar webcams.

FAQ

What OpenQCE does :

• Displays what your webcam sees, live with libSDL and X11 or on sequences of pnm files (openqce_shot and openqce_sdl).
• You can specify a delay and let openqce run in the background, it will shoot every x seconds (-p).
• You can select three resolution : 376x312 (with borders), 360x296 and 352x288 (-s).
• You can see raw data from the sensor or a fast interpolated image (-f).
• You can dump all the registers of your webcam (openqce_dump).

What OpenQCE can't do or better stated "what will OpenQCE do ?" :

• Have a dynamic gain/exposure control.. or even a manual one. For right now it's static and unpractical, it will be fixed in the next version.
• There is no white balance correction.
• It doesn't feature a interpolation-sharpen-killer-filter, picture is good but could be better.
• Save files as .png or .jpg.
• Add text with ttf fonts.
• Interpolate with another png (OSD).

Download

Latest tarball: openqce-0.1.tar.gz (10216 bytes)
MD5 (openqce-0.1.tar.gz) = aaf65c7d5588966d8bd8b9f0c13533f9
Bug reports/patches: tamentis@neopulsar.org