Hi Antonio, On Monday 26 October 2009 13:05:58 Antonio C. Costantino wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pretty new to the Linux "video sphere", so I thought writing to the > list to get some facts about a webcam I'd like to buy. > > Indeed, I'm going to buy a spc2050nc from Philips. I was induced to Philips > by the extensive list of supported devices at this link (http://linux- > uvc.berlios.de/). > > Although the spc2050nc is not listed as a supported device, the data-sheet > (http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc2050nc_93/spc2050nc_93_pss_aen.pdf) > states clearly that the webcam is an UVC USB video class. So my question > is, being it a UVC device, will it work out of the box? or will I need to > provide you with some data for you to "enable" spc2050nc support?
It should work out of the box. At least in theory :-) In practice webcams can be buggy. The same applies to the uvcvideo driver of course, but experience showed that there are nowadays more bugs in the webcams than in the driver. The uvcvideo driver has a list of "quirks" it can use for various devices that are not 100% UVC compatible. If you're not lucky your camera will need one of those, and you'll have to pass an extra parameter when loading the driver until I fix it. If you're really not lucky your camera will require a new quirk and will steal a few hours of my sleep. And if you're really really really not lucky it might not work at all, but that tends to be quite uncommon nowadays. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
