Capturing multiple webcams (uvcvideo) with OpenCV on Linux

Question

I am trying to simultaneously stream the images from 3 Logitech Webcam Pro 900 devices using OpenCV 2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. The uvcvideo driver gets loaded for these.

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Answer 1

this works as charm for me

sudo rmmod uvcvideo

sudo modprobe uvcvideo quirks=128

This will be reset every reboot. If this works, create the following file: sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/uvcvideo.conf containing the line: options uvcvideo quirks=128

check this link http://renoirsrants.blogspot.in/2011/07/multiple-webcams-on-zoneminder.html