[opensuse] What USB Webcamera to use with OpenSUSE10.2 ?
Hi list, - my daughter (12 years) is using KDE/kopete extensively. - for her birthday coming up, I'd buy her a webcam to use with Kopete. - any hints, what should I go for? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I picked up a "Logitech Quickcam Chat" recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well. Joe Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
- my daughter (12 years) is using KDE/kopete extensively. - for her birthday coming up, I'd buy her a webcam to use with Kopete. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote:
I picked up a "Logitech Quickcam Chat" recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well.
Joe
I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which works well, great picture quality. Most Logitechs work well (but with notable exceptions). The best website to check for the status of most webcams is http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html. This is the home of the spca driver which supports a lot, but also lists most other popular cams/drivers and provides links to each projects page. Another major driver is http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more recent cams. Just remember that kopete (and all linux clients) only supports sending the webcam picture, not the sound. Skype currently only supports sound and not video, so a combination of the two gets a strange out of sync experience :-) OpenWengo supports video and sound via SIP, but not many people use SIP, and it's not in the openSuse repos either. John. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Søndag 09 september 2007 23:53 skrev John Layt:
On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote:
I picked up a "Logitech Quickcam Chat" recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well.
Joe
I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which works well, great picture quality. Most Logitechs work well (but with notable exceptions).
The best website to check for the status of most webcams is http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html. This is the home of the spca driver which supports a lot, but also lists most other popular cams/drivers and provides links to each projects page. Another major driver is http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more recent cams.
Just remember that kopete (and all linux clients) only supports sending the webcam picture, not the sound. Skype currently only supports sound and not video, so a combination of the two gets a strange out of sync experience :-) OpenWengo supports video and sound via SIP, but not many people use SIP, and it's not in the openSuse repos either.
John.
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- THANKS for the inputs, will check it out! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 09 September 2007 23:53:15 John Layt wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote:
I picked up a "Logitech Quickcam Chat" recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well.
Joe
I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which works well, great picture quality. Most Logitechs work well (but with notable exceptions).
The best website to check for the status of most webcams is http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html. This is the home of the spca driver which supports a lot, but also lists most other popular cams/drivers and provides links to each projects page. Another major driver is http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more recent cams.
gspca will be in 10.3, 10.2 version is in the buildservice. I don't know about uvc, but at least it's also in the build service, drivers:webcam. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch@suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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