On 07/01/11 22:03, David King wrote: > I would be interested to know if any of the webcams that work with > Ubuntu also have an optical zoom -- does anyone know of any? Or is that > too fancy for a webcam? I need something more powerful than your average > webcam but a lot cheaper than a proper camcorder, to use as a camera to > stream live via the web (using livestream.com) rather than record onto a > disk/memory card/tape.
I managed to get my [expensive] Sanyo CA100 with optical zoom to work as a webcam (plug & play!) but they seem to have disabled the Optical Zoom controls when it is being a webcam which sucks really badly. :( -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
