Re: [gentoo-user] quickcam pro 4000

[Statux]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 23:15 +0100, Paul Sobey wrote:
> James wrote:
>
> > I have this usb camera installed (or so I think):
> >
> > lsbus:
> > Bus 004 Device 003: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000
> >
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-video.rules has this entry:
> > KERNEL=="video[0-9]*",  NAME="v4l/video%n", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="video"
> >
> >
> > So what is a good application to view the live video with?

I use ekiga with gnome for conferencing and camorama with the same
camera you have. I haven't found a video capturing program yet, though.
I hope someone knows of a nice one :-)

> This used to work really well with the pwc set of drivers, but support
> was removed from the kernel, and thus Gentoo, a few months ago. I ended
> up buying a Logitech Quickcam 9000 to replace mine, which has much
> better picture, and is supported by the uvc set of drivers - these seem
> to be under more active development.
>

PWC support was added back into the kernel a long time ago under the V4L
version 1 section of the configuration.

The licensing for the proprietary drivers was dropped way back (those
were the extra drivers that got you higher framerates and better quality
images, etc) and yes, the support was yanked from the kernel but said
support has been returned, which made me happy because, as I noted, I
too have one of these cameras.

> Sorry I don't have a better answer!
>
> Paul

-Statux


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