On 12/08/2011 10:05, Tony Pursell wrote:
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 08:56 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> I've noticed some dirt cheap webcams in places like Wilkos and B&M for
> round about £10 (with microphones). Names are things like Itexet (AFAIR)
> Anyone tested these?
>
Best is to look for a good deal on a Logitech webcam then go
to the
Logitech site and see if it is one of their UVC (USB Video Class)
standard webcams which are fully supported in Linux
http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices
I did see a report that someone had done a lot of fantastic
work to get
other types of webcams supported, but I would stick to UVC.
I discovered an old Logitech webcam in a cupboard - I /think/ it might
be a C120 but I don't know - there are no marks on it that I can see.
I ran Live Cds both for Ubuntu 11.04 and Linux Mint, installed Cheese
and Skype. Cheese could open the webcam in both, but the latest Skype
edition, 2.2 beta, although it could see the webcam was there, wouldn't
open it, on EITHER distros.
I don't really want to install a distro to my (small) HDD until I can
get that sorted.
Is there a problem with the current version of Skype? My Netbook (which
is currently awaiting a new screen as it got cracked) has a built-in
webcam and that gets used by Skype OK "OOTB"!
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