GSVideo uses the video4linux (v4l: wiki, resources) source plugin to do capture under Linux. However, not all webcams are supported by v4l. Here is a website with some information about supported USB video devices, and here a driver that supposedly supports more than 250 different USB webcams in Linux.
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New version of GSVideo with capture object 31 comments
Here is a new release of the gsvideo library for processing. This version (0.3.9) includes the GSCapture and GSMovieMaker classes (however, GSMovieMaker is not functional yet):
So, the GSCapture class is the most important addition at this time. Video capture is highly platform dependent, and it requires different gstreamer input plugins on Linux, Mac OSX and MS Windows.
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