[cpia] which webcam under linux

[Ramprasad Rao]

I have two cameras - ezcam (cpia-usb) and ibm-xirlink (ibmcam) and the picture
quality seems way better on the ezcam. Howvever the ibmcam seems to work 
under very low light levels and seems to have lots more bells and whistles. 

- Ram

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:47:59PM +0200, Andreas Grzybowski wrote:
> > now I want purchase a webcam ! Is the terratec webcam the right one ?
> > or which webcam can i use with my patched kernel ?
> > It's impossible to get a none usb cam at this time ! 
> > all cam's have usb :-(
> > 
> > Can anyone help ? Or can anyone give me some hints ?
> 
> AFAIK, the terratec-cam should work fine. All cameras supported by our
> driver have the same chip inside. So from the electronic
> specifications (resolution, compression, ...) there is no difference
> between the cameras. There might be differences with respect to lens
> quality, design, etc. but I have no idea which one is better with
> respect of those criteria. Anyone on the list has cameras from
> different vendors? In what do they differ? Anyway, all cameras known to
> work with our driver are listed at webcam.sourceforge.net. If you know
> of any additional model let us know. The most extensive list of
> supported usb-cameras is at www.linux-usb.org.
> 
> Have fun, Peter
> 
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