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

Jonathan West westwales at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Sep 15 13:18:00 2002


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On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 11:55, Gareth Bowker wrote:
> 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.
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> I don't know which one you looked at, but I bought mine last year for abo=
ut
> the 15 quid mark. They've discontinued it now, but you could, I'm sure ge=
t
> something around the same sort of pricemark.
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> > 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 ?
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> They appear as a video4linux device, so any video capture/snapshot progra=
m
> can be used. (This is certainly true for the ones I've seen)
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> HTH,
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> Gareth
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Thanks Gareth,
The camera I found was 150+ so definitley a differant one.
I found www.exploits.org/v4l which is pretty useful, also seems to be an
abundance of drivers for loads of cameras so it looks like just deciding
which one to go for
Cheers
Jon
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public key www.jonwest-horselogging.co.uk/key/jon.asc
http://www.jonwest-horselogging.co.uk

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