It's when vendors start adding things, like extra buttons, motion, or other features that they get wonky, much like any usb, network, or other camera.  As a standard, UVC anything should work, but beware fancy devices with features, you're better off with an older, more basic device that just does its job well as a camera and nothing else.

Note some include a microphone, this has never ended well with different input/output sinks for conference calls.  My logitech does add a mic, I always get echo/feedback, in general vitriol from participants if I dare us it.  I tend to stick to a single input/output device for audio like my jabra 510 puck.  I suspect pulseaudio muxing latency.

-mb


On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:55 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:48 PM mike enriquez wrote:
>> I have Ubuntu and I would like to attach a camera so I can use
>> "Zoom". Can anyone in the group give me the name of a good
>> camera?
On 2020-04-23 13:04, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> The older the better if it meets your resolution standard, but these
> are pretty standard (and cheap used).

To expand on this:  USB video cameras that have been made at least in
the last 10 years (and probably before that) are supposed to follow a
standard.  This is the USB Video Class standard, and so far, I think the
webcams I've seen that have USB interfaces have all followed this
standard and been usable once the uvcvideo kernel module has been
loaded.  Most distros will do that automatically.  Yes, this includes
the last 2 Lenovo Thinkpads I had that included built-in webcams.

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