Re: Linux-compatible webcam recommendations invited

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 09/13/05

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:52:25 +0200

    Am Di, den 13.09.2005 schrieb Reshat Sabiq um 22:42:

    > Anyway, i'll send them out later tonight: what i said there is that i got
    > STX to work.
    >
    > My main questions now are:
    > 1. Does built-in mike work on Pro 4000? Are there any tricks i could try
    > to get it to work on STX?

    My Philips webcam's microphone is recognized.

    > 2. I'm not sure about Alexander's response: does 1280x960 work on Pro
    > 4000? What about 640x480? GnomeMeeting has a tooltip about large
    > resolution, where it lists it as 352x288. And i have a feeling that that's
    > what i was getting w/ STX in GM. But maybe this is a GM limitation. I
    > guess i should try vlc or mplayer, and see what resolution they report.
    > But i have serious doubts that 1280x960 could be used on a connection like
    > 384Kbps. I have 5Mbps at home, but my other primary party isn't likely to
    > have high bandwidth. So i probably wouldn't benefit from a max resolution
    > above 640x480. In fact i doubt 640x480 would work well at 384Kbps too. It
    > would probably have to be scaled down to 400x300, or 300x230, etc.
    > 3. The last thing i want to try is how performance and quality compares on
    > Windows. But i got STX to work fairly quckly, so i haven't even tried it
    > on Windows yet.

    http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsPWC

    "The box says I can take images at 800x600 and even 1280x960, but I
    can't seem to set this resolution"

    Did you read that part? The matrix show you which resolutions at which
    frame rates are possible. For video conferencing like gnome-meeting you
    normally won't use more than SIF or CIF.

    Alexander 

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