Hi, On Monday 18 August 2008, homoludens wrote: > Sorry for a newbie question. > > I'm thinking of purchasing a Linux-compatible webcam, > and while looking for models that work under OpenSUSE > 11, which I am using, I noticed that there seem to be > two general solutions for webcam support, gspcav and > uvc. > > Could someone quickly brief me in on the major > differences between the two? Do they constitute equal > alternatives for webcam support, or are there certain > advantages / disadvantages to them? Which one should I > be concerned with when looking for a Linux webcam?
The two drivers just support different class of webcams. When you buy an AMD/ATI graphic card you need the ATI graphic driver. When you buy an NVidia graphic card you need the NVidia graphic driver. The same holds for webcams, you need a driver that supports your device. The gspca driver is newer, so it might be less tested than the UVC driver. I would of course advice getting a UVC webcam as I'm the UVC driver author :-) Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
