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From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Subject: Re: What kind of video camera?
In-Reply-To: <393D77FC.419853D0@i-clue.de> from "Christoph Sold" at "Jun 7, 2000  0:15:24 am"
To: so@server.i-clue.de (Christoph Sold)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:18:15 +0800 (TSD)
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Christoph Sold wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > 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

I actually was thinking of some USB or LPT type camera, without any 
board to go into the box. There are plenty of such on the market now.
Any ideas?

> 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

BTW what software did you use for viewing of the picture,
conferencing etc?

> less than 300 DM (~ $150) today.
> 

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