How to use a 3rd-party web camera with Skype?

[E3V3A]

tv <ES7000 need hardware h.264 encoder , not only another cameras , MSTAR in EH5xxx - ES6xxx not have this encoder , older models with samsung ARM doesnt have this decoder too

Why do you say this? I don't see what that have to do with attaching an external web-cam? You can certainly use a "Samsung" cam, so why not any other?

[E3V3A]

So, AFAIK, we have 3 types of cameras here:

1. Built-in cameras on high-end models (Need more data)
2. The older CY-STC1100 with USB VID/PID = 04E8:2058
3. The newer VG-STC2000/XS using the MAX64380 chip, with 128MB and BT656 sensor, with VID/PID = 04E8:2059

Data on the Max64380 doesn't seem to exist, which make me believe its just false info from Samsung. More likely is that they use the MG2580/3500 as shown here:



Probably the built-in cameras are much simpler (and cheaper) than the add-on ones. I suggest we collect more data on these. Anyone with such a TV set are recommended to post their findings here.

In addition I think that if you have a more modern/advanced and similar camera, you may be able to reprogram its USB VID/PID to one of the above and see what happens...

[4e4ako]

So, AFAIK, we have 3 types of cameras here:

3. The newer VG-STC2000/XS using the MAX64380 chip, with 128MB and BT656 sensor. (VID/PID: unknown)

Anyone with such a TV set are recommended to post their findings here.

vg-stc2000/ru - USB\VID_04E8&PID_2059

[E3V3A]

If you have a working (non-samsung) web-camera for your TV, please post any or all of the following (whichever you feel comfortable with.)

1. You could connect the camera to a windows or linux box and post the output from USBDeview (windows) or the "lsusb" command in linux.
2. If you are brave you could try to open the camera box and take some pictures of the electronics inside. Especially close-ups of the chips.
3. Provide any additional info, like driver files, FCC codes, manuals etc.
4. If you have root access to your TV, you could post the output of "lsmod", "lsusb" and "dmesg", after having connected and activated the camera.

[E3V3A]

Here is the latest camera widget. (X10P_0.970_empCamera_VER_1.120513 (1.4 MB)

Code: Select all

empCamera
empCamera.xml
EmpSchema.xsd
libMoIPCamera_2058.so
libMoIPCamera_2059.so
mgfw_2058.bin
raptor_firmware.img

From this post.

[E3V3A]

In fact it seem that both the "older" and the newer "VG-STC2000" is using the Maxim MG3500 (or equivalent) Codec. No info about sensor so far.
Mobilygen is the development board manufacturer. And the sources to the H264 Codec can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/crusher264/sou ... /src/?r=67

The driver module for this camera is much simpler (~ half size of CY-STC1100) due to the more advanced embedded ARM9 in the Codec of that camera.