On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote:
> from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb
> webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under
> linux?
I've been using a Philips Vesta cam for a while now with the 2.4-pre, and
now 2.4.0 kernels. In my experience, the driver is rock-solid, and I get
better performance in Linux than Windows. I haven't tried with a 2.2
kernel, but I hear the driver works well with those kernels as well.
If you don't mind using a closed-source driver (The author has entered into
an NDA with Philips..), it's an excellent choice.
xawtv is really designed for tuner cards and the like. I don't think it's
ever actually worked for me. There are much better apps around for looking
at webcam output like camstream and gspy.
Cheers,
Peter
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