Re: A well supported webcam
- From: Homer S. <Mr.Plow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:00 -0500
On 29 Jan 2008 18:38:30 GMT, HamRadio <hamradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there,
I'd like to buy a webcam well supported in Linux (640x480 dpi and
1.3 Mpixel, perhaps with integrated microphone, should be enough for me).
The problem is that vendors don't say anything about the chipset their
webcams use, so how to figure out if a certain webcam is supported?
Maybe asking here if anyone has had such an experience... :-)
Is anyone using the Trust WB-3320X
(http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15354)
and/or the WB-3250p
(http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15082)?
Could anyone suggest me some other well supported model?
Many thanks in advance.
Just a heads-up on cams to stay away from - anything from Philips. Their drivers are
terrible and they are never updated. Their tech support is awful and even if you do
receive a response, it'll sound like it came from a complete moron with no knowledge
of the product. They advertise a frame rate of 90fps for their SPC900NC webcam but
it actually only does 15fps max when recording video in monitor mode. Here are the
specs: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc900nc_00/spc900nc_00_pss_eng.pdf
Their control program doesn't even have a 90fps setting and when I asked their tech
support why this was, they 'fired' back an email about a week later saying that new
Vista drivers are available. I had not only told them three times that I was using
XP Pro but had also sent them screen caps of the control app that showed all
available fps settings - minus the advertised 90fps setting. I wanted to mail them
back and ask 'what's the difference between an orange' but thought that would
completely blow their tiny minds. Good luck
HJS
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