Webcams
Thu, 2007-08-02 14:45 — Matthew Davidson
I've just had a friend ask me about webcams, which I've never used before. This document claims "many cameras work out-of-the-box". Does anybody have any real world experience with this? Brands of hardware to recommend or avoid? I notice Ubuntu has Video4Linux installed by default, and a great big button marked "Detect devices" in the Ekiga video preferences dialog. Is it really that easy?
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I have successfuly imported and edited some stuff from my handicam which connects via firewire (This and this were useful). I was able to view the camera POV live as well, although I did not bother recording it or doing the webcam thing. I am sure it would have worked fine though.
I just plugged my cheap digital camera in via USB but it does not seem to be streaming into anything obvious (Kino, Cinelerra, Xine etc). I think I did have it working on a previous install though... XawTV??
Google throws up this WebCam tutorial, which might be handy
Ruben
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Webcam pointers
Linux.com has an article titled "Configuring your webcam to work under Linux", which doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but provides some tips and links to further information.