Three years ago, that's how the stable world was. Things get better. I have examples of older equipment from the "not so great" older equipment world. This one is a DLink:
http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_11_14_dlink_works/ Like most free software, it's rock solid. The camera itself leaves a lot to be desired. The next one is from an analog camera and capture card. http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2008/2008_01_24_working_video_capture/ Notice how much nicer the image is. That's about what you can get out of the EEE PC's built in camera and what I expect from video cameras now. Now you want a client and the biggest problem is a fractured, non free client population. Skype, I think, has a popular non free client which should just work if your friend have Skype. Gnome meeting became Ekiga and this is a first class communications program ... if you can get your friends to use it or something that talks to it. The KDE IM client kopete has web cam support but I don't know if it works in Etch because I have moved on to Lenny and only one person I know has a web cam that might talk to it. This is one area that will change drastically if Google's chat client is widely used and they get video chat going. On Sunday 23 March 2008, Daniel Webb wrote: > Excellent, that's exactly what I wanted to hear! I was afraid I would get > the answer I sometimes get in the Linux world when things barely work, > which goes something like "theoretically, X driver will support some > things, maybe". _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
