From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 10:37:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E3516A402 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from root@secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn) Received: from secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn (tu073217.ip.tsinghua.edu.cn [166.111.73.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E05843D48 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:37:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn) Received: from secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4CAb2Xt050891 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 18:37:02 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from root@secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn) Received: (from root@localhost) by secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4CAb2n2050890; Fri, 12 May 2006 18:37:02 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200605121037.k4CAb2n2050890@secure.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn> References: <200605120054.52213@aldan> In-Reply-To: <200605120054.52213@aldan> From: mag@intron.ac To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:24:42 +0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Seeking advice on a video camera for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:37:47 -0000 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"