[Westwales] usb pci cards and webcam and....

Gareth Bowker westwales at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Sep 15 11:56:00 2002


On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 11:38:09AM +0100, Jonathan West wrote:
> Hhmmm
> That Kensington's alot mote than I was hoping to pay.

I don't know which one you looked at, but I bought mine last year for about
the 15 quid mark. They've discontinued it now, but you could, I'm sure get
something around the same sort of pricemark.

> Back to the origional question I suppose, are there any that definitely
> don't work or is it a bit like digi cams where they are seen as a file
> system ?

They appear as a video4linux device, so any video capture/snapshot program
can be used. (This is certainly true for the ones I've seen)

HTH,

Gareth