Logitech C510 HD Webcam – Review and Performance

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I am going to buy Logitech C510 HD webcam and I just checked on other questions here on AskUbuntu that it works out of the box with cheese. Jorge's response also confirm this and I feel confident buying it now.

My question is can it be limited in any functionality that I would like to do with it?
I would like it to be used with everything – Skype, Gtalk video chat, Facebook, Youtube etc. Also this may sound lame but I need to know whether I could record or do a video call in lesser resolution video (its a 720p one)?

Edit: Ported part of this question to another question to make it more specific.

Best Answer

This comment on the forums confirms that the camera works when you're plug it in. The older C500 shows up as supported in Linux on the Logitech page, but unfortunately that page hasn't been updated for the C510.

However mrubli from Logitech posts on their forum:

All these cameras are UVC compliant and work well on Linux.

So you should be good to go with support; as far as being able to encode with the GPU and all that you might want to split those off into seperate questions so we can get down to specifics.

I personally have had great success with Logitech webcams in Linux and I can do Cheese, Skype, and Google Talk, etc with an older Quickcam STX, if you end up with this webcam please leave a comment on how well it works!

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