Hi,

We plan to use a webcam in an embedded project for building a sort of 
surveillance camera system. In short we take a few pictures an hour and submit 
those using GPRS or UMTS. The embedded system consists of an embedded linux 
board (Fox board lx832) build around a ARM9 cpu. The board contains two USB 1.1 
ports and to one of those the webcam will be connected.

First of all not much webcams offer high resolutions. Logitech has a bunch of 
those (e.g. QPC 9000 Pro / Sphere AF) and most others I found from Trust, 
Hercules seem to use the Microdia chipset which doesn't have an opensource 
driver yet. Does someone have other suggestions for webcams that offer good 
image quality and if possible a high resolution?

Another issue is of course that I'm limited to USB 1.1. I don't think the 
bandwidth is much of a problem as I don't need much images and don't need them 
frequently either. Second jpeg compression is fine by me (but I would like to 
be able to adjust the compression parameters). Does USB 1.1 somehow limit the 
resolution of the pictures I can take? I can imagine that the buffer size is 
smaller than the max image it can take and that USB2 is fast enough to empty it 
before data gets overwritten.

Thanks in advance,
Roderick Colenbrander
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