Seeking advice on a video camera for FreeBSD

[mag at intron.ac]

     Unfortunately, as I know, now FreeBSD supports only BrookTree 848/878
PCI video capture card. This means that only a TV-compatible video camera
can be used with the card, working with FreeBSD.

     Now VIMICRO (http://www.vimicro.com/), a Chinese company, has a large
market share of cheap USB video camera chip all over the world. Its Linux
driver is being expected to be ported to FreeBSD.
(http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)

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                                                From Beijing, China

Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to buy a simple video camera to improve upon the currently 
> text-only "instant messenger" communications.
> 
> What is known to work well with things like KDE's kopete?
> 
> For one of the machines it should be a either a PCI-X, a USB-2, or a Firewire 
> connection. For the other -- a PCI or a USB (an older machine).
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions!
> 
> 	-mi
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