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Dual Cameras?
Hmm... OK, in looking through the WPILib sources (C++), it appears that the camera server is hard-coded to camera 0. Not only that, but the NI vision system remembers which cameras were enumerated as "cam0" and "cam1". In general, that's not necessarily a problem, unless one of your cameras gets trashed and you try to substitute another. The new camera will be enumerated as "camx" where x is > 0. This will cause the cameraserver to fail because it's hardcoded to only work with cam0.

So, short of porting mjpegserver over to the roboRIO, does anyone have an approach for using dual USB cameras?

TIA,

Mike