Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ?

Yuri yuri at tsoft.com
Sat Jun 25 04:14:46 GMT 2005


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>There has been talk on and off on -multimedia about a Video4BSD API that
>would handle most image-capture devices.
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>A big problem with your average USB webcam is that there are six million
>proprietary different camera interfaces and even with an API if there is
>no drivers its useless.
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Yes but there are several major webcam chipsets that get great image 
quality.
Like Philips PWC chipset that is in zillion modern webcams, Divia NV802 
-- same.

3-4 supported chipsets would make a great difference already.

FreeBSD should be fully suitable to run as home PC and w/out webcam 
support at all it hardly can.

Yuri



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