Comments on: Webcams on Linux

By: Jonner

Jonner — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:30:32 +0000

Actually, I did a little bit of research beforehand, but I couldn’t find a lot of really definitive information on exactly which models worked well (and you never know that the model they’re selling now has the same chipset, etc. anyway, even if it has the same model number). The reason I blogged about it was partly so that other people that came along looking for a webcam might have some better information about what works on linux.

But my main point was mainly the one that anonymous #2 made — not too long ago I was editing X config by hand and struggling to get even basic usb stuff working, so the fact that I can just plug random stuff in and even some of it works feels pretty good. And the point of this post was mostly to help

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:45:42 +0000

yep, I’ve to say I had the exact inverse experience. Also with a Quickcam Communicate, but at that time the driver had a bug and I had to fix the sources myself. But anyway, this is great to see how fast it evolves, I remember when I had to struggle to get a graphical display (understand plain X), and it wasn’t that long ago.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:57:56 +0000

Yes, the support for those has improved, especially thanks to that one French professor

There are however still a lot of cameras unsupported, you were still lucky if you didn’t check beforehand. Especially couple of The sweetest webcams on the market are unsupported, those being the only a few genuinely HD models on the market.

It’s kind of sad that almost everything “HD” lacks (Ekiga for instance supports only post stamp sized video, lack of certain drivers, etc) behind on Linux, it would have been a great selling point to be superior on that area. Hopefully some day however…