On 1/27/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks, I'm looking for an cost effective video camera with (almost) TV quality for recording directly to an gentoo box. May also be an digicam w/ video recording capability. Which device would you suggest ? thx
I got a cheap Logitech QuickCam EC, which works pretty well with the GSPCA (media-video/gspcav1) drivers. My only qualms with that camera is it has a very high grain, dead pixels ( yes. .. dead pixels.. ) and it behaves poorly in bad lighting, and whites out in sunlight, and has limited colour control. ( and it makes everything yellow ). So for your digicam solution, I would not reccomend that unless you dont mind something cheap and nasty. IF you want to record from any linux capable video camera/digicam, mencoder and transcode should both be able to record from it as a V4L device. :) -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
