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

One of the most helpful things I discovered was if you place a Sleep(ms) call in between your capture initializations. This allowed me to retrieve two webcam captures simultaneously without problem.