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On Tuesday 10 Jan 2006 09:10, Steve Marvell wrote: > Anyone got positive experience of webcams on linux? > > Steve > Sonix webcams, Chicony "TwinkleCams", Logitech Messengers.... All work OK for me. I worte a couple of very simple instructions for the Chicony and the Logitech cams a while ago for my distro forum - Logitech - http://www.yoper.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6274 Chicony - http://www.yoper.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5450 I run one of my Chicony cams as an IR camera. Along with my brother in law, we worked out how to modify them ( and other people modded several other cams) - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.johnson2/IR/ is the link to the modding information. Work well with Motion - the superb motion detection program - useful for getting wildlife at night ( or watching for crooks I guess) Hope this is useful. I use either camorama or camstream to output the images - both useful programs, but I find camorama more sensitive to framerates - and it can give split pictures etc unless set up properly. Also useful - if you have a TV card - are those black and white security cameras, most of which do IR too. I have a cheap Micromark one setup for wildlife watching. It has built in IR LEDs - light range not great, but OK close up. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html