Didi,
I'm not sure, but I think the compression which is used with your qcam
is being used in the QuickCam 4000, so if anyone wants to tinker with
the driver and add the compression support that the 4000 has, would
might have a nice quality of picture..
Just a thought..
Hetz
On 7/2/05, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:17:34PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> >
> > >How about something cheaper? Does any low end ("dirt cheap" as you called)
> > >camera have linux support?
> >
> > There is the qcam 310, which includes a microphone (analog), and can be
> > found for 60 NIS on zap.
> >
> > It works with the spca5xx driver, which does have some quirks, but is in
> > active development.
>
> For the record: I have a Logitech QuickCam Express (046d:0920, there
> are other models of the same name), and it works with spca5xx. The
> driver does not support compression (yet?) on this (and many others)
> webcam, and so it's quite slow - around 4 FPS (it's USB 1.1).
>
> The image quality isn't bad, if you only use it to talk to friends.
> You can see here snapshots I just took:
> <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/qcsnap1.png>
> <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/qcsnap2.png>
> <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/qcsnap3.png>
>
> I never used myself the 4000, but I also heard that it's much better.
> --
> Didi
>
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