[ale] web-cams on linux

[Geoffrey]

Last I used the quickam drivers, they did not have the kind of fps you'd 
be able to do streaming with.  Check for yourself, but the drivers were 
pretty green.

There are now two drivers out there, so if you're serious about using 
the quickcam, you should get on the quickcam list, so you can get the 
latest drivers.

My recommendation would be to go to the usb linux web site and find a 
camera that is well supported and drop the bucks for that.

Depending on what kind of streaming you're looking to do, there are a 
couple of options.  vic, I believe will work, and there's a tool called 
streamer that comes with xawtv package that might be useful.

attriel wrote:
> OK, so we're setting up a webcam, and it came with a 1 month subscription
> to some service that'll host the pics/feed at 20$/mo or something after
> the free month.  From windows.
> 
> Seeing as I have linux servers and high speed dsl (and this isn't exactly
> going to be mailed out to 2.5 billion people in spams :o) I figure there
> must be some way I can set up the streaming feed ...
> 
> USB Logitech QuickCam Express ... I found some QuickCam drivers in the
> kernel, so I'm compiling them up as modules (along with enabling
> video4linux) and USB modules ... But what kind of software would I use for
> either streaming it out?  And, to test the cam independent of the
> streaming part, what would I use to just view it on the desktop under X ? 
> (X11/FVWM2)
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> --attriel
> 
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