[plug] Linux webcam / camera

[Scott Middleton]

Labtec I think. They were around $20 cheaper than Logitech ones.
Frame-rate was poor in Linux though, 2fps or so.
Used the qce-source patch.
It's been running my "security" camera for some months now.

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:58, Denis Brown wrote:
> At 09:42 26/11/2003 +0800, Ben wrote:
> >I've dug through the archives on previous topics related to cameras and 
> >Linux and haven't found anything specific.
> >
> >I'm interested in finding a web cam style camera that can take frames at 
> >set intervals (half a second intervals would be good) to connect up to a 
> >Linux box.
> >
> >Just some sort of a "dumb camera" that plugs into USB or serial or 
> >something and interfaces with Linux to save images, not one of those 
> >cameras that takes photos and uploads them via FTP or something similar, 
> >those type of things are more than I'd want to pay.
> >
> >Anyone have any suggestions for a camera that will work with Linux to do 
> >something along these lines?
> 
> Hello, Ben.
> 
> You should be able to find stuff there from Scott Middleton, Trevor Philips 
> and myself - at least - regards this.   Probably one, two months ago.   I 
> raised it in the context of a burglar system and Scott, Trevor and others 
> had helpful comments and demonstrations including some captured example 
> video and even live webcam stuff.   Very impressive.
> 
> Scott (?) suggested a cheapy webcam being sold by the Extreme Computing 
> people - $49 buys a USB webcam with video out IIRC, but software only 
> supplied for Windows.   If that is the one Scott used, then he got it 
> working with Linux so that would be a good place to start.   When funds 
> permit (yes, I know, only $50 but there are two youngsters mouths to feed, 
> ...) I intend to get one and try it out.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Denis
> 
> 
> 
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