[FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

Hi 

I've tested with recent ports.

pwcview works fine, both vga and sif

but skype still sees /dev/video0 but fails to play anything from it,
multimedia/cheese even does not sees webcam.

Is it supposed, or I am so unlucky ?

PS. microphone in cam work also as snd_uaudio pcm2

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
Reply-to: vova at fbsd.ru
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
Cc: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org, freebsd-current at freebsd.org,
freebsd-usb at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:10:52 +0300

Hi 

Thanks you for efforts!

I've tested it with 
ugen4.2: <USB 2.0 Camera Vimicro Corp> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST
spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON
on 9-CURRENT

pwcview works fine:
$ ./pwcview/pwcview
Webcam set to: 320x240 (sif) at 5 fps

skype detects video device, but shows only black window instead of
picture.

build webcamd.c with debug shows:
$ ./webcamd
Probing for 0.0.0
KrefGet: 0x483e2304 = 1
KrefGet: 0x483e2304 = 2
KrefGet: 0x483e2554 = 1
KrefGet: 0x483e2610 = 1
Added device 0x48318b04
KrefGet: 0x48318b08 = 1
Received command 1 0x00000000
KrefGet: 0x48318b08 = 2
Status = 0
Received command 5 0x40047601
Status = -22
Received command 5 0x403c7601
Status = 0
Received command 5 0x400e7606
Status = 0
Received command 5 0x800e7607
Status = -22
Received command 5 0x800e7607
Status = 0
Received command 5 0x40207609
Status = 0
Received command 5 0x8020760a
Status = 0
... and then in loop:
Status = -22
Received command 3 0x00025800
Status = -22
Received command 3 0x00025800
Status = -22
Received command 3 0x00025800
Status = -22
Received command 3 0x00025800
Status = -22
Received command 3 0x00025800
...


Side question, is it possible to use audio microphone of USB camera ?


-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
To: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org, freebsd-current at freebsd.org,
freebsd-usb at freebsd.org
Subject: [FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:37:37 +0100

Hi,

During the last couple of days I've spent some time to finish my
webcam 
daemon. My webcam daemon is basically an application which consists of

userspace Video4Linux USB webcam drivers and some uLinux glue code
which links 
with libc, pthreads and libusb. The webcamd talks to
/dev/video_daemonX which 
is provided by the video4bsd kernel module. There is full support for 
mmap/read/write/open/close. poll is not supported.

Basic operation and idea:

/dev/video_daemonX is the interface for the webcamd. /dev/videoX is
the 
interface for the V4L application. The video4bsd transports all data
between 
these two devices. In the case the V4L application is using mmap, no
data is 
copied due to shared kernel memory buffer!

Licensing issues:

Effectivly the webcamd userland program becomes GPL'ed due to the V4L
USB 
drivers which are GPL licensed. Some files inside the webcamd remains
BSD 
licensed which allows for building similar BSD licensed daemons.

The rest of the code is BSD licensed.

Source code:

1) FreeBSD 8-stable

2) Apply the patch below and re-install libusb in /usr/src/lib/libusb:

http://p4web.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=172876

http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=172876

3) Compile ulinux (webcamd + libv4l + pwcview) and video4bsd (must be
checked 
out in the same folder due to dependencies)

svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
      checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b/trunk/usbcam/video4bsd

make all install
kldload video4bsd

svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
      checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b/trunk/usbcam/ulinux

make fetch
make patch
make all
make install

# this will attach to the first detected webcam:
./webcamd

# this will try to attach to the given USB unit, interface and V4B
unit.
./webcamd -d ugen4.1 -i 0 -v 0

# this will display webcam contents from /dev/video0 by default.
./pwcview/pwcview

Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

Yes, I am working on getting this into ports!

Known issues:

1) If you detach the USB webcam you need to manually restart the
webcamd.

--HPS

Support: I will be available at #bsdusb on efnet during the day.
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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru