[spook-l] PWC driver discontinued

[Nathan Lutchansky]

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It seems the PWC driver will continue to live after all.  Luc Saillard has 
posted a forked PWC driver that includes a GPL'd implementation of the 
decompression routines.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/14/219

- -Nathan

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:

> For those of you who haven't heard yet, Nemosoft Unv has discontinued
> development of the Linux Philips webcam driver (PWC) and has asked that
> the driver be removed from the Linux kernel tree.  See the old PWC webpage
> for more information:
> 
> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
> 
> If you're curious, the ultimatum is here:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/24/278
> 
> This is unfortunate, as PWC was the most complete and usable USB webcam
> driver available for Linux.
> 
> At this point I strongly recommend avoiding USB webcams altogether and
> only using Firewire webcams or frame grabber cards.  The lack of a
> standard specification for video over USB makes the market too volatile to
> depend on any kind of Linux support for USB webcams.  -Nathan
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