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About
Here you can find an open source driver for the Canon Communication VC-C1 Camera.
When I started using this camera, I was not able to find a driver for my Linux box. Canon only supports Windows® systems, and only provide Windows® programs and drivers, that you can find in their support webpage. Using the information they provide in their Software Developers Kit, I programmed a small driver. And, as you can see, I decided to put the driver and the code freely available to public use, under the GNU LGPL license.
Probably it is not a big piece of code, but if it can save time to anybody, I will be happy sharing my work.

Contact
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News
15th June, 2005: There is a completely functional version of the driver in the project's cvs. You can read the instructions to use Sourceforge's anonymous cvs in this webpage, but anyway these are the commands you have to use:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/canondrv login 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/canondrv co -P canondrv

You can find a ready-to-use version of the driver and a simple test applications, that let you control the camera using the keyboard. You can safely use the driver in your own applications, through it still needs some improvements and changes.
I have included a small script so that you can download a cvs snapshot in case you do not want to use the cvs. The corresponding link is below.
As soon as I have some time, I will make a release.
Any comment will be welcome.

3th June, 2005: I have registered the project in Sourceforge.net, and I have created this small webpage, that I will try to improve and extend with the time. I already have a working version of the driver, althought it needs several improvements, so as soon as I have some time, I will learn how Sourceforge works and upload the first release (or should I say pre-release).

Download
I have not uploaded anything yet, but you can keep an eye in the Sourceforge's project page
If you do not want to wait, you can download a nightly snapshot of the cvs from here: canondrv-cvs.tar.bz2
The rest of the snapshot files can be found in the file index

Acknowledgements
Initially I used the code by Eric Chasanoff to start typing my own code. I have unsucessfully tried to contact him to let him know that I was going to release the driver, but as I have not been able to contact him, I hope that sometime and somehow, he reads this page and enjoys it.

P.D.
As you can easly see, English is not my mother language, so please be benevolent.


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