[plug] WebCams & Linux...

[Kai]

If you're looking for an older type of Parallel port Camera that works well
with Linux, I've got a Colour Quick Cam here that works quite well.
All I had to do was modprobe c-qcam and then ./gqcam and it works fine !

Haven't had the time to get it to do frame grabs and post them to my
webserver yet but the images are quite crisp and clean.
Running it in GNOME the almost-real-time-video works really well too...

My $0.02 worth.

/Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Phillips" <phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] WebCams & Linux...


> Mike Roberts wrote:
> >
> > I picked up a Phillips Vesta a couple of months ago and it was one of
the
> > easiest peices of hardware I have ever got running.
>
> Cool!
>
> > I just patched the kernel with the Phillips USB drivers, recompiled the
> > kernel, loaded the modules and away it went. The drivers so far have
been
> > keeping up to date with the kernel tree (lag of less than a week), so
even
> > when there is a new kernel version you can keep the cam going.
>
> Actually, the latest driver apparently has a binary core, and a source
module,
> so you can compile it for your custom kernel. ^_^
>
> > I highly recommend it.
>
> Ok! And the picture quality from the Vesta Pro is decent?
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
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