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Brian Howlett  writes:
> I have a USB webcam that I have used previously on Windows and wanted to 
> test on my RPi 5.
>
> I've installed MS Teams but it doesn't recognise the camera (plugged in to 
> a USB socket on the Pi).
>
> VLC does give me a picture when I set it to use the camera, but the 
> colours are just green and purple and black, so not usable.
>
> Does anyone have recommendations for a USB camera that I can use with the 
> Pi5, or software I might need?

My Logitech C270 was fine when directly attached to a Pi 5B, but not so
good via a USB hub. I don?t know which component is at fault there, but
if you?re using the Pi?s sockets then this it doesn?t matter. You can
still get one of these devices for about œ20 on Amazon.

My C920 was fine both ways.

I used the Debian build of Cheese[1] to test both.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/trixie/cheese

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