Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, March 05, 2010 a las 04:33:43PM +0100, Bas v.d. Wiel escribió:

 I would like to have a bigger model to do the same with a group of
 colleagues on my side, i.e. put the cam 3-4 meter away from the table.
 Does someone knows a good model for doing that, wall or table mounted
 and with a long USB cable, and supported in FreeBSD 8-CURRENT?
 
 Thx
 
  matthias
   
 In the past I've had reasonable succes using a standard camcorder over 
 firewire to do things like this. It's been a few years though. If using 
 firewire isn't an issue for you, I'd be happy to delve into my pile of 
 notes and see if I can find you something of a howto. The advantage of a 
 firewire camera is in the much more standardized protocol between PC and 
 camera.

Hello Bas,

Thanks for you kind reply to my quest. I've never used any device via
firewire; I see that there are man pages firewire(4) and fwe(4), but I
have no clue, how this connection of a cam is physically made; can I connect 
such
cam to my laptop or do I need a special PCI card, for example (i.e.
build up some PC for my purpose, which could be an option too)?

and: will the result work with Skype?

I'd be happy to read your howto about; thanks in advance

matthias

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Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype

[Bas v.d. Wiel]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

Hello,

To do normal Skype session (face2face) I'm using a USB video cam mounted on top
of the lid of my laptop which is good supported by the pwc kernel module:

Mar  5 09:39:57 current kernel: ugen4.2: Philips at usbus4
Mar  5 09:39:57 current kernel: pwc0: Philips product 0x0329, class 0/0, rev 
1.10/0.03, addr 2 on usbus4
Mar  5 09:39:58 current kernel: pwc0: This camera is equipped with a Sony CCD 
sensor + TDA8787 (32)

I would like to have a bigger model to do the same with a group of
colleagues on my side, i.e. put the cam 3-4 meter away from the table.
Does someone knows a good model for doing that, wall or table mounted
and with a long USB cable, and supported in FreeBSD 8-CURRENT?

Thx

matthias
  
In the past I've had reasonable succes using a standard camcorder over 
firewire to do things like this. It's been a few years though. If using 
firewire isn't an issue for you, I'd be happy to delve into my pile of 
notes and see if I can find you something of a howto. The advantage of a 
firewire camera is in the much more standardized protocol between PC and 
camera.


Bas

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