With some substantial help from the forum I finally packaged ‘fswebcam’ for openSUSE 11.0 / 11.1 / 11.2. The description says:
This is the program used to generate images for a webcam. It captures a number of frames from any V4L or V4L2 compatible device, averages them to reduce noise and draws the details on it using the GD Graphics Library which also handles compressing the image to PNG or JPEG.
Both versions (20091224 and 20091225) are equivalent. If you have a webcam for these specs please try it out and report any issues on this thread. The packages are to be found here: Software.openSUSE.org.