At last, a fully operational, and affordable webcam for our Linux boxes! The Logitech QuickCam Deluxe is fully operational through the video4linux2 driver built in the recent kernels. Either the video and sound are operational for amsn and skype.
The webcam has a manual focus adjustement wheel (see on the right) and a built in microphone.
Note that the built in microphone is connected through the usb cord. Thus it is recognized as a new audio device.
You can watch your webcam with mplayer:
mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0
And record either video and audio with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 960x720 -r 25 -i /dev/video0 -f oss -i /dev/dsp -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -b 2000k -ab 192k -ac 1 -g 300 -aspect 4:3 test.mkv
This command will record the webcam into a mkv video file with mpeg4 video compression and mp3 audio compression.
