[LAU] LAC2020

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:52:16 +0100
Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:

>Hello Will,
>
>On 11-11-2020 15:43, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a reasonably inexpensive USB webcam known to work with
>> debian (or derivatives).  
>
>Bear in mind that due to the current crisis prices have doubled and
>sometimes even quintupled for webcams, at least over here (Netherlands).
>Webcams seem to be the new toilet paper.
>
>Jeremy
>

It's actually worse than that here. Virtually no deliveries seem to be quoted
till December :(

Just to make it more interesting, it seems the audio of none of my machines work
on the LAC test site except my laptop, and that already has a camera which is at
least reasonable.

This is probably a combination of hardware, distro and browser version, so it
looks like I'll be going with the laptop... carefully. It's getting a bit long
in the tooth. Still, it will be a 'learning experience' as they say.

It seems with BBB if you share screen, this includes the browser window.
Whereas somehow the Zoom program manages to hide itself.

I can only guess it is hiding, grabing the screen, then displaying itself
again. Clever people these web-foot types :)

Will.

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