Statux <statux <at> optonline.net> writes:
> I use ekiga with gnome for conferencing and camorama with the same > camera you have. I haven't found a video capturing program yet, though. > I hope someone knows of a nice one I'll test out ekiga. If I run across an application for capture, I'll drop you a line. > > This used to work really well with the pwc set of drivers, but support > > was removed from the kernel, and thus Gentoo, a few months ago. I ended > > up buying a Logitech Quickcam 9000 to replace mine, which has much > > better picture, and is supported by the uvc set of drivers - these seem > > to be under more active development. > PWC support was added back into the kernel a long time ago under the V4L > version 1 section of the configuration. > The licensing for the proprietary drivers was dropped way back (those > were the extra drivers that got you higher framerates and better quality > images, etc) and yes, the support was yanked from the kernel but said > support has been returned, which made me happy because, as I noted, I > too have one of these cameras. All very nice to know. I'll keep twidling with the kernel and looking applications that make it easy to use this usb camera. > -Statux Thanks for the information. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
