Pre-release of webcamd [v0.2.4] - testing remotes

[Juergen Lock]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:18:35PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 20:47 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > In article <201105311932.38205.hselasky at c2i.net> you write:
> > >Hi,
> > Hi!
> > >
> > >Attaching new patch for ports. Some minor changes.
> > 
> >  Since this version now provides Linux-like /dev/input/eventX device
> > nodes I tested that a bit and made the following patches:
> > 
> > 1. For the new webcamd:
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/webcamd/0.2.4/pctv452e.c-rc.patch
> > 
> > 	Switch Technotrend S2-3600 and PCVTV 452e dvb-s2 tuner remote
> > 	handling from .rc.legacy to .rc.core, allowing rc5 scancodes
> > 	of (some) other remotes to show up on /dev/input/eventX
> > 	so e.g. an universal remote with more buttons could be used
> > 	instead of the shipped minimal remote of the PCVTV 452e
> > 	tuner.  (And this also allows repeat to work with the lirc
> > 	patch below.)
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/webcamd/0.2.4/patch-input.h.txt
> > 
> > 	Fix EVIOCGKEYCODE and EVIOCGKEYCODE_V2 ioctl definitions
> > 	in linux/input.h, they need to be _IOWR not _IOR (like with
> > 	FE_GET_PROPERTY they're wrong on Linux too but there the
> > 	driver doesn't care.)
> 
> I take it the input.h and uinput.h you included in the v4l_compat update
> also contain these fixes?
> 
Yes.  (Sorry I should have said so.)

> > 2. For multimedia/v4l_compat:
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/webcamd/0.2.4/v4l_compat-20101027_2.patch
> > 
> > 	Add <linux/input.h> and <linux/uinput.h> headers needed to access
> > 	/dev/input/eventX that webcamd now can provide.
> 
> I merged the patch and the new headers in the tarball. I also updated
> libv4l to 0.8.4.
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/libv4l-0.8.4.diff
> 
> > 3. New port multimedia/v4lutils: (preliminary, help wanted, maybe
> >    Hans wants to maintain this too like multimedia/libv4l that
> >    builds from the same sourcetree?)
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/webcamd/0.2.4/v4lutils.shar
> 
> I poked it a bit than this is what I came up with.
> This will build with clang, and will build on 7.x. Although some small
> fixes are more personal preference.
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/v4l-utils-0.8.4.shar
> 
> I haven't really tested the utils either but the v4l2-ctl util option
> --list-formats (--list-formats-ext) is really nice to see what the
> webcam supports.

 Thank you, very nice! :)  (So far I only built your updated ports
and confirmed that ir-keytable still works.)

	Juergen