On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:45 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
But it still seems that a lot of these webcams need effort to get going. I need one with everything already in the OS. It's not for my own use, it's for a good number of stations. They have to be plug and really play.
If you need several then your supplier should be co-operative! Take your OS on a laptop down to the nearest store and test each webcam in turn so you find which ones work and which ones don't. Or get your supplier to send you a box of samples :)
I'm not an expert; I don't even have a webcam, though I've been looking at buying one. What I have read indicates that webcams are still something of a minefield (unlike scanners). To the extent that parts with the same model codes can sometimes have different chipsets inside. I got good hits from:
Check http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=video as well. It has a list of many different usb devices ans whether or not they work. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge