Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:14:39 -0700
Yuri <yuri at tsoft.com> wrote:

> 
> >
> >There has been talk on and off on -multimedia about a Video4BSD
> >API that would handle most image-capture devices.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> 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.

Firewire video capture is workable.

Brooktree cards work as well as the PVR250 and IIRC PVR350.


Not sure about the price of a firewire cam, but last time I checked
uber cheap ntsc cams were easy to find.