{"id":21,"date":"2007-01-18T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/logitech-webcam-for-notebooks-pro-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:13:15","slug":"logitech-webcam-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/logitech-webcam-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Logitech Webcam for Notebooks Pro on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/logitech_webcam_notebooks_pro.jpg\" title=\"Logitech Webcam for Notebooks Pro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/logitech_webcam_notebooks_pro.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Logitech Webcam for Notebooks Pro\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006LIOM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=burningorg-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00006LIOM\">Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks (USB)<\/a> is the USB web-cam I use. I like the small size and the clip on mounting system works great with the IBM X31 Thinkpad.<br \/> Mandrake 10.1 includes PWC (Philips Web Cam, the chipset that is used) support out of the box, but it only supports QCIF images (176&#215;144, quite small) images. To get support for full size images (up to 640&#215;480) you will need to install the kernel source rpm, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saillard.org\/linux\/pwc\/\">this site<\/a> to download the pwc-10 package. I had no problems installing it from the full source code (as opposed to just the kernel patches).<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The Saillard code supports a compressed data transfer mode which   allows you to get high-resolution images at a faster frame rate  off of the CMOS sensor in the camera over the USB bus. Because the device  is a USB 1.x device, it has limited bandwidth on the USB bus and must  compress larger images (or faster frame rate data) to fit it inside of  its bandwidth limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks (USB) is the USB web-cam I use. I like the small size and the clip on mounting system works great with the IBM X31 Thinkpad. Mandrake 10.1 includes PWC (Philips Web Cam, the chipset that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/logitech-webcam-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-reviews","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}