OpenCV + Webcam compatibility

Question

For the people that have experience with OpenCV, are there any webcams that don\'t work with OpenCV.

I am looking into the feasibility of a project and I know I am going

Answer 1

On Linux, if it's supported by v4l2, it is probably going to work (e.g., my home webcam isn't listed, but it's v4l2 compatible and works out of the box). You can always use the camera manufacturer's driver to acquire frames, and feed them to your OpenCV code. You can even sub-class the VideoCapture class, and implement your camera driver to make it work seamlessly with OpenCV.

I would think the latest i7 series should work just fine. You may want to also check out Intel's IPP library for more optimized routines. IPP also easily integrates into OpenCV code since OpenCV was an Intel project at its inception.

If you need really fast image processing, you might want to consider adding a high performance GPU to the box, so that you have that option available to you.