On 2020-04-30 11:14, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I am looking for a webcam to use with Zoom conferencing. Running
> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS if that matters. Any recommendations? Ideally
> something that will also work on a Mac.
I realize this wasn't part of your question/assumption, but I'd start
with don't use Zoom, since it is such a security disaster and there are
lots of other better options out there starting with Jitsi.
As for hardware, modern laptops are the easiest with built-ins. A
modern dSLR/pointNshoot/videocam can be used via USB and gphoto2:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/856460/using-a-digital-camera-canon-as-webcam
I tried this on another distro and have some other issues to resolve
before this will work for me. Doing a search on:
gphoto2 webcam
should give you some other ideas.
As for other dedicated webcam hardware, I'd guess that almost anything
else should just work given usb video standards.
> -Alan
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