<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Folk<br><br>Many thanks for the webcam info I'll have a good dig and see what I can do. Much appreciated. <br><br>Mo<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Adam Sweet <adam@adamsweet.org><br>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Monday, 5 November, 2007 9:42:10 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Webcam<br><br>Mo Awkati wrote:<br>> Hi folk<br>> <br>> Any recommendations for a webcam that will definitely work with
Ubuntu<br>> 7.10 and which app do you suggest I use with it?<br><br>Hey Mo<br><br>I have a Phillips webcam from about 7 years ago which works fine with<br>this driver, the same drivers also supports quite a few Logitech,<br>Creative Labs and other Phillips ones. Be sure to pick one that the<br>website says works, I bought a random Logitech one about 3 years ago<br>that didn't work and I later found out that it would probably never<br>work. This driver is at:<br><br><a href="http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/" target="_blank">http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/</a><br><br>Oh, actually, I can't see a list of supported devices there so look<br>here, though this is a different driver:<br><br><a href="http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#devices" target="_blank">http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#devices</a><br><br>Also another driver here:<br><br><a href="http://ovcam.org/ov511/" target="_blank">http://ovcam.org/ov511/</a><br><br>I also have a laptop with a Ricoh
webcam built in which isn't supported<br>out of the box at the moment (on Ubuntu at least), but I found (Ubuntu<br>packaged) kernel modules for it here:<br><br><a href="http://www.arakhne.org/spip.php?article51" target="_blank">http://www.arakhne.org/spip.php?article51</a><br><br>There are other drivers also, just search google for Linux webcam and<br>pick model listed as supported by one of these pages, or one you find<br>yourself.<br><br>Ekiga (formerly Gnomemeeting) works with webcams (never actually used
it<br>to talk to somebody with Ekiga), Cheese is good fun for kids (and<br>adults), camorama is ok too. I think people used to use xawtv in the<br>Oalden Days. There are other apps for serving images from your webcam<br>via a webserver, such as camserv, webcam, camstream. I also appear to<br>have a xawtv replacement installed, called 'came'.<br><br>There are recipes out there for using your webcam as a motion triggered<br>security camera, I installed half of the apps with that intention but<br>I've never got around to setting that up.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Adam Sweet<br><br>-- <br><br><a href="http://blog.adamsweet.org" target="_blank">http://blog.adamsweet.org</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wolves LUG mailing list<br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/</a><br>Mailing list: <a ymailto="mailto:Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk"
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