web camera

[Richard Kinder]

Alex Combas wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:51:57 +1100, Richard Kinder wrote:
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>>Florentin Ionescu wrote:
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>>>I want to buy a web-camera  - can you please recommend a well 
>>>supported  web camera,
>>>eventually one with microphone build it ?
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>>I have a MediaForte MV300 - it works out of the box with both Warty and 
>>Hoary. I also got the Logitech QuickCam Express working in Hoary - see 
>>https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCameras 
>>for the wiki entry on supported webcams.
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>>Regards,
>>    Richard
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>Awesome, I have a quickcam express also. I'll have to find some 
>time to give that a try!
>Any suggestions on which software to use to do video-chat 
>from windows users to linux users?
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I've previously (using redhat 9.0) used gnomemeeting on linux connecting 
to netmeeting on windows - worked a charm. I haven't tried out 
gnomemeeting on Ubuntu, but don't see why it wouldn't still work. This 
was using the MediaForte camera + a separate microphone on linux.

Regards,
    Richard

>Alex Combas
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