From LQWiki

A webcam is a video capture device. For more info see wikipedia's article.

Hardware compatibility lists

There are lists about webcams that work with linux:

USB

• http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=9
• http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
• http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reynolds/quickcam/

IEEE1394/Firewire

• http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/cameras/

Programs to use with a webcam

• Skype
• cheese
• gqcam

Webcams documented in this wiki

• QuickCam Web
• QuickCam Messenger