Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:15:24 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What kind of video camera? Message-ID: <393D77FC.419853D0@i-clue.de> References: <200006061533.e56FX9206975@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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