Seeking advice on a video camera for FreeBSD

[mag at intron.ac]

     Thank you for your reminder. The port "graphics/spcaview" supports
many USB video camera, but it seems that only static or quasi-static
image capture has been supported. I cannot fetch the source package of
the new port "multimedia/pwcbsd" to look in. From
"http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/" I know that pwc-10.0.12-rc1
(for Linux) now supports:

        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0302) }, /* Philips models */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0303) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0304) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0307) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0308) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x030C) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0310) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0311) }, /* Philips ToUcam PRO II */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0312) },
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0313) }, /* the 'new' 720K */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0329) }, /* Philips SPC 900NC PC Camera */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x069A, 0x0001) }, /* Askey */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B0) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B1) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B2) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B3) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Zoom (old model) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B4) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Zoom (new model) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B5) }, /* Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B6) }, /* Logitech (reserved) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B7) }, /* Logitech (reserved) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x046D, 0x08B8) }, /* Logitech (reserved) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x055D, 0x9000) }, /* Samsung MPC-C10 */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x055D, 0x9001) }, /* Samsung MPC-C30 */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x055D, 0x9002) }, /* Samsung SNC-35E (Ver3.0) */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x041E, 0x400C) }, /* Creative Webcam 5 */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x041E, 0x4011) }, /* Creative Webcam Pro Ex */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x04CC, 0x8116) }, /* Afina Eye */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x06BE, 0x8116) }, /* new Afina Eye */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0d81, 0x1910) }, /* Visionite */
        { USB_DEVICE(0x0d81, 0x1900) },

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                                                From Beijing, China

eculp at encontacto.net wrote:

> 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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