Running old web cameras on windows 10!

[Devansh Garg]

How do I make these old web-cameras to run on windows. I just need a footage from these cameras so I can create something like a 360 multi camera thing (photo attached). I will be using python to program the cameras on a rasberry-pi.

Windows does detect the hardware (named it as USB Camera), but it is unable to find any drivers for it. All the cameras are from the same company: yotech. I'm unable to find compatible drivers for these cameras on the internet.

What can I do? Can some python script help me get the footage?

 

P.S. I figured out that those rigs are called time freeze camera rigs.

[GuiltySpark_]

We have no idea. What happens when you plug them in?

[Devansh Garg]

Just now, rickeo said:

We have no idea. What happens when you plug them in?

Windows is able to detect the hardware (gives it a name: USB Camera), but the camera app in windows does not work. And a notification pops up saying that windows was not able to install the drivers.

[GuiltySpark_]

1 minute ago, Devansh Garg said:

Windows is able to detect the hardware (gives it a name: USB Camera), but the camera app in windows does not work. And a notification pops up saying that windows was not able to install the drivers.

Then the next step is finding out what kind of cameras they are and researching if there are drivers available somewhere on the internet. 

 

So they show up with an exclamation point in device manager?

[Kilrah]

With a bit of luck they'll work on linux, but on Windows if they need a driver and you can't find one you won't get them to run.

[Devansh Garg]

9 minutes ago, rickeo said:

Then the next step is finding out what kind of cameras they are and researching if there are drivers available somewhere on the internet. 

 

So they show up with an exclamation point in device manager?

They are from a company named yotech. The first picture has the logo of the company as well.

[Devansh Garg]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

With a bit of luck they'll work on linux, but on Windows if they need a driver and you can't find one you won't get them to run.

They use to run on windows XP back in 2000's. Anyways, I have ubuntu booted as well. Can you please guide me on how to run these cameras on ubuntu?

[Kilrah]

Plug one in, launch an app that uses a camera, see if it's recognised?

[Devansh Garg]

Just now, Kilrah said:

Plug one in, launch an app that uses a camera, see if it's recognised?

It is not.

[Devansh Garg]

This is what the camera looks like from inside. The main chip has an alpha-numeric character on it: 305 063UAA04AA

[Kilrah]

Most likely old things from before video sources were standardized and that needs a proprietary driver then, if there isn't one you're out of luck...

 

lsusb on linux might tell you more about who made it that you could search for, but that's about it.