For what it's worth, the proprietary (phillips cam) module was discontinued, and the new open source ones are much easier to install and work better to boot. That makes a Phillips based cam a nice way to go, and I like my Quickcam 4000 very much, despite the graininess and fish-eye. The graniness can be taken care of in PDP with a [pdp_conv].

Last I checked there was a small issue with closing and reopening the Quickcam, where it wouldn't reopen correctly and it would flash green every so often. Loading and unloading the module fixes things. I just wrote a two line sh script that I run as root when the cam accidentaly gets closed. But usually you can avoid closing it.

chow, Ian

derek holzer wrote:

Most Phillips webcams seem to work well. There used to be a special (proprietary) kernel module for them under 2.4 linux kernel. Sara Kolster has a very nice 3 Megapixel one she's using with OSX/GEM that has *amazing* good quality [for what it is...]. Just about as good as her firewire DV cam, and of course much much smaller. Didn't work under OSX/PDP, but I used it with my Linux box and PDP when we first got it, and it seemed alright for the few little experiments I ran.

d.

Georg Holzmann wrote:

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Hallo!

I have a Terratec TerraCAM USB and it works for PDP very well. (in GEM the quality is not the good as in PDP, but thats a problem with GEM !?)

LG Georg