Thread: External Camera as video recorder
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2008-06-04 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by tz1 View Post
You need to check the "USB Host Mode" threads. You can use an external USB webcam if it is supported with Video4Linux, but it isn't that simple.

There are some net video cameras that will record to an SDHC for hours.
Something like this one that was featured on Boingboing the other day:

http://www.hobby-lobby.com/video-camera.htm

I don't know how well it is supported in Linux it is though.