How hard is it to write your own driver for a webcam that works on xp, so that it can work on windows 7? :/

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Anonymous Wed Jun 8 06:44:07 2011 No.3192878 [Reply] [Original]

How hard is it to write your own driver for a webcam that works on xp, so that it can work on windows 7? :/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 8 07:15:07 2011 No.3192918 >>3192878 >>3192878 impossible presuming that the software for your camera is not open source, as far as i am awre but i might be wrong.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 8 07:18:07 2011 No.3192921 >>3192918 Bullshit. I don't know how hard it is exactly, but it's definitely possible to write custom drivers whether the hardware's original software is open source or not. I run my webcam with an unofficial driver, too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 8 07:20:07 2011 No.3192925 >>3192921 I got it from this board, by the way: http://www.davesdrivers.com/forum/index.php Maybe that's a better place to ask your question.

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