Seeking advice on a video camera for FreeBSD

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting mag at intron.ac:

>     Unfortunately, as I know, now FreeBSD supports only BrookTree 848/878
> PCI video capture card. This means that only a TV-compatible video camera
> can be used with the card, working with FreeBSD.
>
>     Now VIMICRO (http://www.vimicro.com/), a Chinese company, has a large
> market share of cheap USB video camera chip all over the world. Its Linux
> driver is being expected to be ported to FreeBSD.
> (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                                From Beijing, China
>
Couple of things in ports

graphics/spcaview
multimedia/pwcbsd

I've not tried them.

ed
> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'd like to buy a simple video camera to improve upon the currently 
>> text-only "instant messenger" communications.
>>
>> What is known to work well with things like KDE's kopete?
>>
>> For one of the machines it should be a either a PCI-X, a USB-2, or a 
>> Firewire connection. For the other -- a PCI or a USB (an older 
>> machine).
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions!
>>
>> 	-mi
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