Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:18:15 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> To: so@server.i-clue.de (Christoph Sold) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What kind of video camera? Message-ID: <200006070118.e571IFQ14332@sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <393D77FC.419853D0@i-clue.de> from "Christoph Sold" at "Jun 7, 2000 0:15:24 am"
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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. > -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/149@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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