Skype-2.0 is here!

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 30 May 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, April 14, 2008 a las 10:17:12PM -0800, Beech Rintoul 
escribió:
> > Finally, skype-devel has been updated to the new 2.0.0.68 version.
> > This is the one that includes video and any input to get this (video)
> > going is appreciated. Everything else seems to work as advertised.
> >
> > If you're going to update to this version, please read
> > UPDATING-20080318.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > Beech
>
> Hello Beech,
>
> I'm running on my laptop 8-CURRENT (of May 28), have the pwc.ko loaded
> which gives me a device /dev/video0 and pwcview is showing my face; as
> well I have installed skype-2.0.0.72,1 from the ports which works fine
> but does not recognice the video device; what should I do or test to
> bring this together? Thanks
>
> 	matthias

Hi all,

We need some common effort to get Video4Linux USB devices working on FreeBSD. 
First of all we need to push a video4linux library.

-lvideodevx

Methods:

int videodevx_open(int unit); /* returns a handle, not neccesarily a 
file-handle */
int videodevx_read(int hdl, ptr, len);
int videodevx_write(int hdl, ptr, len);
int videodevx_ioctl(int hdl, cmd, arg);
int videodevx_mmap(int hdl, void *addr, size_t len, int prot, int flags, int 
fd, off_t offset);
int videodevx_getfd(int hdl); /* used for polling */
int videodevx_close(int hdl);

Some work in progress is available from:

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

Download "linux-2.6.29" to "ulinux/linux"

cd ulinux

make clean all

NOTE: It's not linking yet.

Second, we need a userland port for Video4Linux, which I am working on. So 
that the application directly receives the USB data and talks to the webcam 
through -lvideodevx and the new BSD licensed -lusb .

Third we need to convince everyone to use videodevx when opening video 
devices. On linux videodevx will simply be a wrapper for 
open/close/ioctl/... . On FreeBSD videodevx will be a complete USB webcam 
driver library.

Anyone that wants to join heads?

--HPS