One-Click WebCam Recording!

**Prefect** · 11-19-2005, 06:40 PM

Wow! Just found out that the Sony PlayStation 2 EyeToy Cam is the perfect Webcam for the CarPC!!

640x480x 30 Frames/sec, veeeerrryy sensitive at night, very fast and sharp, beautifull colors!

And: it has a built in microphone!

I found the drivers on bittorrent. I seems there is a D-Link VGA Webcam built in the EyeToy case.

I found the cam for about 20$ bundled with eyetoy play 2

greetz, chris

**Tone** · 11-19-2005, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Prefect

I choosed to not display the preview window while capturing, because the Via C3 1Ghz system was not able to handle the cpu load. Maybee i can make this one configurable too. (but where should i put the status texts then?)

chris

could you not make a second version that will allow people to see the preview window when capturing or give a choice so that people with a higher spec system (that can cope with it) can pick weather they want the preview or not?

cheers mate

**fliplap** · 11-20-2005, 02:07 AM

Originally Posted by Prefect

Wow! Just found out that the Sony PlayStation 2 EyeToy Cam is the perfect Webcam for the CarPC!!

640x480x 30 Frames/sec, veeeerrryy sensitive at night, very fast and sharp, beautifull colors!

And: it has a built in microphone!

I found the drivers on bittorrent. I seems there is a D-Link VGA Webcam built in the EyeToy case.

I found the cam for about 20$ bundled with eyetoy play 2

greetz, chris

Any chance you could post a small sample movie?

**Konrad** · 11-20-2005, 04:34 AM

Funny. I've seen the game yesterday for the first time. A friend showed it to me and I thought exactly the same thing.
Didn't know that it also had a microphone, but the picture quality was really good. I'll probably buy this webcam for my car.

**Prefect** · 11-20-2005, 07:57 AM

Sample Movie: EyeToyCam.avi Boris

**fliplap** · 11-20-2005, 12:27 PM

Ok, I'm impressed. I think I'll score one of these for my bumper cam

**lostreception** · 11-20-2005, 12:40 PM

any chance of doing mutiple cam recording like security cams do
id love to record front and rear facing cams just incase of some ******* rear ending me or pulling out in front of me

**fliplap** · 11-20-2005, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by lostreception

any chance of doing mutiple cam recording like security cams do
id love to record front and rear facing cams just incase of some ******* rear ending me or pulling out in front of me

Totally possible by running multiple instances of the program.

Prefect: This is an awesome tool! I'm going to pick up an eyetoy in a couple minutes here! Do you think it will work well for capture high motion video, for example, from the front of a car and close to the road? Like in that first video you posted

**tj!2k4** · 11-20-2005, 03:16 PM

Ack! I wish you would have posted about the eyetoy 4 days ago.. mine JUST sold yesterday on ebay.

**lez** · 11-24-2005, 06:40 AM

I cant see it being better than a medium priced webcam.

thing is no comparative test exists, and when reviews get done, none are done in low light its just some fat geek waving to his friend at another desk and comparing the quality under office lighting conditions.