Quoting Salman Khilji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am using Mandrake 8.1. A new Dell P4 system.
> Haven't yet purchased my web camera. I was looking at
> the IBM Net Camera Pro or the Intel PC Camera Pro.
> Both are USBs. Are they supported in Linux?
They are supported by a driver that was built based on
reverse engineered protocol. It may work, or it may NOT
work for you. Some versions of IBM cameras provide only
compressed datastreams, and the driver does not know
how to decode them. The ibmcam driver is for people who
already have the camera. When you have a choice then
you may want to choose a camera with published specs,
such as one based on OV511 chipset, for example.
See http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/ for more.
> Has anyone got a recommendation for a good supported
> web camera? I want to be able to use all the
> functionality of the camera with the provided drivers
> (if any). Want to stay away from Winblows.
If you want -all- the functionality then you'd better
use one of Philips cameras, with binary-only driver.
This driver was written with all the specs in hand.
See http://www.linux-usb.org/ for list of supported cameras.
> Could someone also suggest any video conferencing
> software that has got both a linux and winblows
> version. The problem is that I am going to be using
> this camera to talk to my parents who unfortunately
> have no choice but to run Winblows. I don't want to
> use NetMeeting since that would require that I must
> use Winblows on both sides.
OpenH323 should be OK for you: http://www.openh323.org/
It interoperates with NetMeeting. I tried that.
> Is it possible to use Linux on one end and Winblows on
> the other? If yes, what software enables us to do
> that?
Any H.323 implementation should work with any other H.323.
Dmitri
--
"After all, how do you give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt when you
know that if you throw it into a room with truth, you'd risk a
matter/anti-matter explosion."
(From N. Petreley's column, "Down to the Wire",
sept. '96 issue of Inforworld)
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