
BeagleBone By Example
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To stream live video from Logitech HD webcam C270 USB camera, connected via local server to the BeagleBone board you need to have a software package that can do the job. But you also need to install some essential software before you download and compile the live video streaming software. Let's get started with the installation of the software packages by executing the following commands :
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
When you are prompted to continue the operation, type Y
, as shown at the end of the preceding screenshot, and hit Enter
to continue and finish the installation:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
sudo apt-get install subversion
Now that we have installed all the prerequite softwares, let's download and compile the video streaming software.
First create a separate directory in the home directory, and put the contents of the streaming software inside it:
mkdir mjpg
Now let us change our working directory to the directory we created...