Webcam

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/
 * http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ - UVC driver & tools, plus list of UVC-compliant devices

IEEE1394/Firewire
 * http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/cameras/

Programs to use with a webcam

 * Skype
 * cheese
 * gqcam
 * guvcview

Webcams documented in this wiki

 * QuickCam Web
 * QuickCam Messenger