RE: Webcam support in FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:09:42 -0700 From: y...@rawbw.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Webcam support in FreeBSD? There are three Linux drivers supported under emulation code: devel/linux-kmod-compat http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/, multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/, multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod/. I couldn't find hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD. There is one for Linux ov511 driver here: http://ovcam.org/ov511/cameras.html. Are any cameras really working under FreeBSD? Can they be used from Linux Skype on FreeBSD? Maybe you could check out: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/usb-cameras.html That seems to me a place to start... (if you find out something, please share!! I have the same concern) Thanks, Yuri ___ 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 _ ¿Querés saber cómo va a estar el clima mañana? Ingresá ahora a MSN http://tiempo.ar.msn.com/___ 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: WebCam support in FreeBSD
Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing them as device with some standardised access. Under Windows there's whole driver infrastructure of camera devices. What's in FreeBSD ? I couldn't find anything except the old bt848 driver and driver for some obsolete parallel port camera. Am I missing something ? I haven't got much interest in this kind of thing myself, but I do know about: http://vinvin.dyndns.org/projects/pwc_bsd.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:27 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing them as device with some standardised access. Under Windows there's whole driver infrastructure of camera devices. What's in FreeBSD ? I couldn't find anything except the old bt848 driver and driver for some obsolete parallel port camera. Am I missing something ? I haven't got much interest in this kind of thing myself, but I do know about: http://vinvin.dyndns.org/projects/pwc_bsd.html Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about webcams as well. For the original message poster: Depending on what you want to do, you can use a digital camera with an AV out port and a TV tuner card to show the image in fxtv and gnome-meeting. I wouldn't know how to stream the image to a web page; but gnome-meeting accepted the TV tuner card as an image source device. Also, if you just want to monitor the room remotely, you could forward fxtv and X over ssh. (Caveat: I haven't messed with this in a long time; so YMMV with newer versions of drivers and ports.) Good luck; and have fun! Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD
For the original message poster: Depending on what you want to do, you can use a digital camera with an AV out port and a TV tuner card to show the image in fxtv and gnome-meeting. I wouldn't know how to stream the image to a web page; but gnome-meeting accepted the TV tuner card as an image source device. Also, if you just want to monitor the room remotely, you could forward fxtv and X over ssh. (Caveat: I haven't messed with this in a long time; so YMMV with newer versions of drivers and ports.) Good luck; and have fun! Andrew Gould Thanx for the answers. I am expecting to see that OS should define some standard how all video input devices and their users interact with OS. What really exists is that gnome-meeting understands fxtv, there's also pwc_bsd that can capture video but doesn't interact with gnome-meeting. My question is really: are there plans to implement single standard on video devices so that it becomes independent of individual devices or individual users and all of them can interact with all. Linux went this way using /dev/xxx + some set of ioctls to communicate. Why doesn't FreeBSD just adopt the same approach ? And port existing webcam drivers to FreeBSD. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
