Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype
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 -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the imperialistic Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con el imperialismo de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype
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 -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the imperialistic Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con el imperialismo de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org