![]() Creative Webcam 5 (older model)
This is cheapo webcam from Creative with chips mostly used in Phillips webcams.
That's actually the reason for name of the kernel module supporting this camera -
The good news is that there's
one nice guy who signed NDA with the company and is making closed source Warning! There're rumours that newer Creative 5 Webcams aren't based on the same chip and so aren't supported in Linux.
But nothing is that perfect as it seems. Most of the software for Linux have problems with
this webcam. Problem is that CW5 supports only I'm using camera in 320x240x30fps mode another good one is 640x480x10fps.
UPDATE
Due to some bad guy and his genuine thoughts about usability
of software, Nemosoft (author of PWCd) decided that PWC should be ripped out from kernel and discontinued
the development. Interesting
URLs follow:
UPDATE 2
Some nice guy is trying to reverse-engineer Nemosoft's ![]() Mustek gSmart mini 3
This one is ultra small portable photocamera with webcaming features.
The chip inside is spca50x clone. As a webcam, you can use
spca50x module.
Only 320x240x15fps mode is supported.
Warning! gPhoto2 command line utility |