On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Douglas S. Blank wrote: >would like to know: what is the "best" USB-base camera under Linux?
Uh, when people ask this I usually give two suggestions: Philips and Logitech cameras. I'm sure there are others, maybe better too, but these I know best. I have a feeling Philips has quite good driver based more or less on official specifications. Logitech driver I know myself since I'm maintaining it, and I must say that the cameras have very poor quality and bad drivers since they are written by reverse engineering. For drivers for many other cameras, see http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/quickcam/quickcam.html > - at least "good" quality at small to medium image sizes (not >necessarily bigger than 200x400): clear with good colors > - not too expensive (less than $100 USD) These are the most difficult things to combine: CMOS cameras are cheap, but they have really bad colors and much of noise. 352x288 resolution is typical. > - at least a few (5-20) frames a second With Logitech driver (qc-usb), you can typically get 7.5 fps. Higher frame rates need compression, but many free drivers don't support compression (qc-usb supports it for Quickcam Web for which it gives 15 fps. Philips requires binary-only module for decompression). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
