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On 1/27/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I'm looking for an cost effective video camera with (almost) |
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> TV quality for recording directly to an gentoo box. |
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> May also be an digicam w/ video recording capability. |
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> Which device would you suggest ? |
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> thx |
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I got a cheap Logitech QuickCam EC, which works pretty well with the |
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GSPCA (media-video/gspcav1) drivers. My only qualms with that camera |
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is it has a very high grain, dead pixels ( yes. .. dead pixels.. ) and |
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it behaves poorly in bad lighting, and whites out in sunlight, and has |
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limited colour control. ( and it makes everything yellow ). |
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So for your digicam solution, I would not reccomend that unless you |
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dont mind something cheap and nasty. IF you want to record from any |
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linux capable video camera/digicam, mencoder and transcode should both |
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be able to record from it as a V4L device. :) |
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-- Kent |
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