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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



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