On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Andrew Agno wrote:
I've looked at various cameras, and the one I've been most pleased with was actually a firewire camera: I think most firewire cameras will work fine under Linux and won't need the special driver that the USB cameras need. iBot and ADS also have
I kind of second that. I have tried two Firewire cameras and
both worked fine, just loading the standard drivers available in every distro and plugging the camera in. There are some gotchas, though:
- Firewire drivers are not Video4Linux compatible: you must use special applications which support Firewire. There used to be a V4L compatibility layer (vloopback) but I heard it's not maintained anymore (not sure).
- If it is DV-camera, the power tends to go off after some time if not recording to cassette, even if one would use the camera streaming video to computer. Furthermore, the manual recommends against using the cam as a webcam (Panasonic GS1 or something like that--not quite new)
- Firewire cameras are probably more expensive (and better).
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