On 08/01/2021 20:04, PeterMerchant wrote:
On 08/01/2021 15:27, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
Hi,
So as I mentioned I'm going to be buying a webcam as my existing
solution isn't working.
I imagine some of you probably use dedicated USB webcams, so perhaps you
could tell me which ones you're using?
I'll do research anyway, but it seems webcams are one of those things
where Linux support is still poor, so any recommendations are welcome :)
Hamish
I have a cheep Omnivision Webcam that used to work years ago with Linux, but no
longer does. It does work with the R-Pi though.
44566.096851] usb 3-6: Product: USB Camera
[44566.096854] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
[44566.222072] gspca_main: v2.14.0 registered
[44566.250399] gspca_main: ov519-2.14.0 probing 05a9:8519
And the other cheap one given to me by my son in law does work. Neither have a
brand name on them
Product: USB2.0 Camera
[44825.513706] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: AVEO Technology Corp.
[44825.517869] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1871:0d01)
[44825.580819] input: USB2.0 Camera: USB2.0 Camera as /devices/pci0000:00
I did have a Trust one for awhile, but for some reason I took it apart and
never got it working again.
Peter M.
Correction: The Omnivision webcam does work, just not with Cheese on this
computer. I tested it with cheese (didn't work) and with Camorama on my old 32
bit laptop running xubuntu and it worked, so I tested it with vlc on this
computer and it works. And it works in jitsi.
The moral: choose your test software well. Cheese has known faults of this
sort. Camorama not recognized in Discover on Kubuntu.
Peter
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