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2010-03-29 , 06:33
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Title says it all, is it at all possible to run the n900 as a webcam on my PC? yay or nay?
 
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2010-03-29 , 06:34
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No im not talking about Qik or ustream just talking about using it on my desktop for msn or stuff like that
 
codeMonkey is offline codeMonkey
2010-03-29 , 07:36
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It is possible, but would take some work.
Something similar was done with the n8x0 series. See here.
 
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2010-03-29 , 10:40
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You could stream the webcam to an network port using gstreamer via the command line, and in that way make it a "network webcam" - which could work for some desktop software, but not all.
 
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2010-03-29 , 10:47
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@codeMonkey - would those steps you link to not work on the N900?
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2010-03-29 , 10:51
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There are already two threads about how to use the N900 as a webcam.
I've found them by searching for "N900 webcam".

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ht=n900+webcam

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ht=n900+webcam

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helloct is offline helloct
2012-09-14 , 00:04
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Download Smartcam M5.
 
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2012-09-14 , 03:01
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Originally Posted by helloct View Post
Download Smartcam M5.
Agreed with this. Basically there is a client for the computer (for the major platforms, I had it working on Linux myself), and then the 'server' runs on the phone, which they also have for the N9.

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2012-09-14 , 15:06
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I should probably update it one day.

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Way to bring up old thread lol
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