Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:14:23 -0700 From: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> To: Freebsd-Multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD & Webcams Message-ID: <3CE4050F.234395FD@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>
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Hello, So far, I've been able to surmise that if you want to use a webcam on FreeBSD, you have one of two options: 1) Use a webcam supported by cqcam, which includes the parallel port versions of the Connectix Color QuickCams and Color Quickcam 2's. Unfortunately these are hard to find these days. AFAICT, it is only possible to get them from e-bay etc. 2) Hook up a camcorder, X10 camera, or similar to a card supported by the BKTR driver and use bktr2jpeg or similar to capture frames. This is my current setup and I find it to be less than optimal. Are there any other options available? Is somebody working on support for any newer (USB) webcams? -- Farooq P.S. If anybody would like to sell/trade their cqcam-supported QuickCam I might be interested. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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