On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 03:31:33PM -0800, Len Ovens wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Chris Caudle wrote: >> On Wed, November 11, 2020 8:43 am, Will Godfrey wrote: >>> Can anyone recommend a reasonably inexpensive USB webcam known to >>> work with debian (or derivatives). >> >> My old Logitech works fine with Fedora. I do not have a newer >> Logitech, so I can only speculate that the newer models would likely >> use the same USB driver interface. > > I think most of ours came from the local "Dollar store" at $2 or $3 > each. My wife uses hers all the time with family that is 8 time zones > away. Also, most point and shoot digital cameras just show up as web > cams if plugged in via USB and my DSLR works just fine via gphoto2 > with v4l2loopback (though it goes through batteries as the camera does > not access USB power) Yes, these are all good options. Last time I checked (which was years ago and the situation should only have improved since then), as long as the webcam is a USB class compliant one, which most of them are, then it should work with Debian and derivatives. -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
