FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Saturday, December 05, 2009 a las 02:09:27PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd escribió:

> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:31:26 +0100, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in case someone wants to use skype (or flash) with his webcam: it is
> > possible now in -current (works at least with multimedia/pwcbsd).
> > 
> > No MFC planned yet. The more you test, the more likely it will be that
> > it will be MFCed sooner than later.
> > 
> > Bye,
> > Alexander.
> 
> Thanks for committing this, Alexander.
> 
> A couple of notes.
> 
> 1.  This code does work on 8.0 and 7.2.  If you are interested in
>     testing on those systems, you can fetch the files at the URL
>     below.
> 
> 2.  The version committed does not contain support for a video
>     clip list (in the VIDIOCSWIN ioctl).  This is not a problem
>     for the Linux skype port or browser-based flash camera apps
>     since these do not use video clipping.
> 
>     I have added video clip list support in the version on my
>     site, below, however there are some caveats which are
>     documented on the web page.  If you are familiar with the use
>     of a V4L video clip list, please take a look at the URL below
>     and send feedback.
> 
> The latest version is at:
>     http://opal.com/freebsd/sys/compat/linux/
> 
> My testing is with a pwc(4) based webcam (in the multimedia/pwc
> port).  This driver has V4L support.  If you test with any other
> driver, please do send feedback.

Alexander and jr,

Thanks for your work! Having this support now in FreeBSD for my
multimedia/pwcbsd based cam in Skype, I'd like to have the same for the cam in
my EeePC 900, about which Linux says:

      [   11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
      [   11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 (04f2:b071)
      [   11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
      [   11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27)

Any chance to get this supported in the future?
Thanks again

	matthias
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