[Update] Re: [plug] Webcam Recommendations

[Lance Duivenbode]

Hi all,

Thanks for the recommendations and help - it's much appreciated! Sorry 
about the delay - life at Pie has been busy with the release of the 
webphone!

Anyway, I ended up settling on a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX 
(product info at: 
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2204,CONTENTID=11932). 
Thanks particularly to Mark for pointing me at the supported hardware 
list - it was invaluable.

Once I got the device home, I plugged into the USB port and it was 
recognised immediately by Kubuntu. Whilst the video component was easy 
to test (just looking at the device settings in Kopete did the job), 
I've not managed to get the audio working as yet. I'll hopefully get to 
this in the next day or so.

One other thing, using Kopete with MSN doesn't work well unless you've 
enabled port forwarding. I had to enable port forwarding for ports 
6891-6901 for it to work correctly - otherwise it connected, you saw a 
frame and then the picture disappears. More info available here on the 
KDE wiki: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete%20Webcam%20Support

So, all up - at least so far - relatively painless solution!

Lance

Mark O'Shea wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:31 +0900, David Dartnall wrote:
>   
>> If you find a driver for the QuickCam Fusion webcam please let me know. 
>> I have access to one but all my research indicates that there's no Linux 
>> driver for it. Sounds like a pretty nice unit too.
>> Are there any recommendations for a similar camera with inbuilt 
>> microphone etc that can be used with Linux? (Edgy)
>>
>>     
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html indicates that this webcam is
> supported by the spca5xx driver, which does come with edgy.  I don't
> have one though and haven't tried using one.
>
>