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The OV519 chip is used in some cheap webcams - for example, from [DSE] (product code XH5096) sold as "Internet Camera with Microphone".
!Linux Support
-the
2.6 series LinuxKernel (as of 2.6.7 at least) come with support for webcams that use the similar OV511 chip, but not these webcams
.
+The
2.6 series LinuxKernel (as of 2.6.7 at least) come with support for webcams that use the similar OV511 chip, but not these [WebCam]s
.
However, there is a driver (licensed under the [GPL]) that you can download
from http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/download.html#ov51x - the module will be called ov51x. It should work with 2.2, 2,4 and 2.6 kernels.
-Unfortunately, these cameras serve images up in jpeg
format only, and this
+Unfortunately, these cameras serve images up in [JPEG]
format only, and this
behaviour will require application-level support. No webcam software for linux seems to handle this (yet).
Best bet (for now) is to get a camera with better linux support.
