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Subject: Re: What kind of video camera?
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Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Could you please give some advice on what kind of web camera to buy to
> work on FreeBSD? I am interested in an inexpensive camera for
> videoconferencing etc that would be supported in FreeBSD. Such small
> thingies you put near the computer case.

After you have decided which TV-Grabber board should go into the box, have
a look at this board interfaces. Buy the cheapest video camera which fits
to that board. (Video compression reduces almost anything away -- thus the
image quality does not matter anyway.) I used a board with a BT848
chipset, and connected a cheap b/w doorstep camera. The hardware costs
less than 300 DM (~ $150) today.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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