Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 16:47:45 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.ms-agentur.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What kind of video camera? Message-ID: <393E6091.9FBBA849@i-clue.de> References: <200006070118.e571IFQ14332@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Victor Sudakov wrote: > Christoph Sold wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Could you please give some advice on what kind of web camera to buy to > > > work on FreeBSD? I am interested in an inexpensive camera for > > > videoconferencing etc that would be supported in FreeBSD. Such small > > > thingies you put near the computer case. > > > > After you have decided which TV-Grabber board should go into the box, have > > a look at this board interfaces. Buy the cheapest video camera which fits > > I actually was thinking of some USB or LPT type camera, without any > board to go into the box. There are plenty of such on the market now. > Any ideas? Avoid LPT devices like the plague. USB, I don't know. Simple calculations show a single picture at TV resolution needs > 1MB before compression. The compression is don in the box, so the data has to travel uncompressed into it. I prefer a PCI based cheapo BT848-based board exactly for this reason. > > to that board. (Video compression reduces almost anything away -- thus the > > image quality does not matter anyway.) I used a board with a BT848 > > chipset, and connected a cheap b/w doorstep camera. The hardware costs > > BTW what software did you use for viewing of the picture, > conferencing etc? None. I needed to grab the images for mesurment purposes. On a sidetrack I installed the fxtv port, which worked (without sound: no sound board inside the box). HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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