From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 17 4: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B6C14F46 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14616 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:04:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:04:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199909171104.NAA14616@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sv: USB cameras Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Leif Neland wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > From: Oliver Fromme > > Leif Neland wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > > A simple question: Are USB cameras supported? Is anybody working on it? > > > > Do you mean photo cameras (i.e. for still images) or video > > cameras? Those are two completely different things. > > > I mean video cameras, but just for taking snapshots. Why a video camera, in that case? You could, for example, use a DC240 to take snapshots regularly (automatically) via a shell script or whatever (oPhoto supports this), and the picture resolution and quality is way better than a video camera. On the other hand, of course, the DC240 isn't exactly cheap (around 550 $US street price). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message