Hi Laurent, In data martedì 27 ottobre 2009 11:16:47, Laurent Pinchart ha scritto: > Hi Antonio, > > On Monday 26 October 2009 13:05:58 Antonio C. Costantino wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm pretty new to the Linux "video sphere", so I thought writing to the > > list to get some facts about a webcam I'd like to buy. > > > > Indeed, I'm going to buy a spc2050nc from Philips. I was induced to > > Philips by the extensive list of supported devices at this link > > (http://linux- uvc.berlios.de/).
I finally got it. > > > > Although the spc2050nc is not listed as a supported device, the > > data-sheet > > (http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc2050nc_93/spc2050nc_93_pss_aen.pdf > >) states clearly that the webcam is an UVC USB video class. So my question > > is, being it a UVC device, will it work out of the box? or will I need to > > provide you with some data for you to "enable" spc2050nc support? > > It should work out of the box. At least in theory :-) It works indeed, although I'm still checking different programmes and resolutions. > > In practice webcams can be buggy. The same applies to the uvcvideo driver > of course, but experience showed that there are nowadays more bugs in the > webcams than in the driver. > > The uvcvideo driver has a list of "quirks" it can use for various devices > that are not 100% UVC compatible. If you're not lucky your camera will > need one of those, and you'll have to pass an extra parameter when loading > the driver until I fix it. If you're really not lucky your camera will > require a new quirk and will steal a few hours of my sleep. And if you're > really really really not lucky it might not work at all, but that tends to > be quite uncommon nowadays. > When you have time, tell me what output I may provide you in order to add the device to the list of supported webcams. Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
