FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 08:06:44 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Saturday, December 05, 2009 a las 02:09:27PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd 
escribió:
> > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:31:26 +0100, Alexander Leidinger 
<Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in case someone wants to use skype (or flash) with his webcam: it is
> > > possible now in -current (works at least with multimedia/pwcbsd).
> > >
> > > No MFC planned yet. The more you test, the more likely it will be that
> > > it will be MFCed sooner than later.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > Alexander.
> >
> > Thanks for committing this, Alexander.
> >
> > A couple of notes.
> >
> > 1.  This code does work on 8.0 and 7.2.  If you are interested in
> >     testing on those systems, you can fetch the files at the URL
> >     below.
> >
> > 2.  The version committed does not contain support for a video
> >     clip list (in the VIDIOCSWIN ioctl).  This is not a problem
> >     for the Linux skype port or browser-based flash camera apps
> >     since these do not use video clipping.
> >
> >     I have added video clip list support in the version on my
> >     site, below, however there are some caveats which are
> >     documented on the web page.  If you are familiar with the use
> >     of a V4L video clip list, please take a look at the URL below
> >     and send feedback.
> >
> > The latest version is at:
> >     http://opal.com/freebsd/sys/compat/linux/
> >
> > My testing is with a pwc(4) based webcam (in the multimedia/pwc
> > port).  This driver has V4L support.  If you test with any other
> > driver, please do send feedback.
> 
> Alexander and jr,
> 
> Thanks for your work! Having this support now in FreeBSD for my
> multimedia/pwcbsd based cam in Skype, I'd like to have the same for the cam
>  in my EeePC 900, about which Linux says:
> 
>       [   11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>       [   11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 (04f2:b071)
>       [   11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
>       [   11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27)
> 

Hi,

> Any chance to get this supported in the future?

Right now that driver is available from the webcamd package announced earlier 
this week, though not BSD licensed.

I tried to install Skype on AMD64 and the V4L IOCTL's are not picked up by the 
linux_ioctl.c !

Any fix for this?

--HPS