[PD] webcam or firewire cam solution ??

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

For what it's worth, the proprietary (phillips cam) module was
discontinued, and the new open source ones are much easier to install
and work better to boot. That makes a Phillips based cam a nice way to
go, and I like my Quickcam 4000 very much, despite the graininess and
fish-eye. The graniness can be taken care of in PDP with a [pdp_conv].

Last I checked there was a small issue with closing and reopening the
Quickcam, where it wouldn't reopen correctly and it would flash green
every so often. Loading and unloading the module fixes things. I just
wrote a two line sh script that I run as root when the cam accidentaly
gets closed. But usually you can avoid closing it.

chow,
Ian

derek holzer wrote:
> Most Phillips webcams seem to work well. There used to be a special 
> (proprietary) kernel module for them under 2.4 linux kernel. Sara 
> Kolster has a very nice 3 Megapixel one she's using with OSX/GEM that 
> has *amazing* good quality [for what it is...]. Just about as good as 
> her firewire DV cam, and of course much much smaller. Didn't work under 
> OSX/PDP, but I used it with my Linux box and PDP when we first got it, 
> and it seemed alright for the few little experiments I ran.
> 
> d.
> 
> Georg Holzmann wrote:
> 
>> Hallo!
>>
>> I have a Terratec TerraCAM USB and it works for PDP very well.
>> (in GEM the quality is not the good as in PDP, but thats a problem 
>> with GEM
>> !?)
>>
>> LG
>> Georg
>>
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