[Gllug] webcams on linux

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:20, Sean Burlington wrote:

> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
> http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/
> 
> mine worked 'out of the box' in both  RedHat and Debian
> 
> but only at a lower resolution than possible
> 
> to get the full resolution you have to use compression drivers that 
> aren't gpl and so don't come with the distro (but installed without many 
> problems)

Do you know if thee are any cams/chipsets where the GPL driver supports
full resolution? I'm quite tempted by one, but I'm not supporting
companies that want to produce binary only drivers.

Mike.


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