picture wanted about ... (Re: webcamd/cuse4bsd && Skype)

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Monday 12 March 2012 11:29:03 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Sunday, March 11, 2012 a las 08:48:01AM +0100, Matthias Apitz 
escribió:
> > To end this long old thread: after fetching and installing
> > ports/multimedia/linux_v4l2wrapper-kmod from CVS HEAD, the V4L2 cam works
> > fine with the old (V4L1) Skype 2.0.0.72; see also
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat
> > 
> > Thanks to Juergen for the hints.
> 
> Hello Hans Peter,
> 
> It would be nice for better understanding or further related trouble
> shooting to have a small picture (I like ASCII graphics), how the
> pieces:

Hi Matthias:

> 
> Skype (V4L1 or V4L2 iocls) and pwcview(1)

These two provide the IOCTL interface /dev/videoX.

> webcamd(8)
> cuse4bsd.ko

These are separate. They only translate ioctls.

> linux.ko
> v4l2wrapper-kmod.ko

Need more info?

--HPS

> 
> fit together; would you mind to create one (or send me a few words and I
> create one) and we add this to the above mentioned Wiki-page;
> 
> Would be really nice; thanks in advance
> 
> 	matthias