[Wolves] Linux and webcams

[Adam Sweet]

--- Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> Kevanf1 wrote:
> 
> >On Apr 9, 2005 12:24 AM, Lee Parkes
> <leep at bogus.net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>Has any one got any recommendations for webcams?
> I'm going to have a play with
> >>this:
> >>
> >>       
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
> >>
> >>But I need a USB webcam. Also where would be the
> best/cheapest place in
> >>Wolverhampton to get one?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>        Lee
> >>
> >I don't know about W'ton but what about eBuyer? 
> They are prety good
> >on prices.  You could always take a look at
> prospective purchases in
> >somewhere like PCWorld then order from eBuyer.

Yeah buy online for a better price, ebuyer are good
and so are http://www.scan.co.uk/

Have a look at http://froogle.google.co.uk/ and
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/ for price comparisons.

> Look at Gphoto and Video4lin for lists of what
> works.

Beware webcams that use the pwc driver which runs many
Phillips and Logitech webcams as the developer got
into a spat with the kernel community and stopped work
on it. Someone else has since taken over
maintainership (not development) of the existing
driver, but it is in danger of being pulled from the
kernel.

I have such a webcam and it works a treat in Ubuntu,
but I don't know how much longer it will remain
supported.

Any recommendations for webcam software? Either for
just viewing and saving the webcam stream, taking
photo stills from it or using it a live streaming
webcam on a website?

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