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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:29:28 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM question (QCAM question)
Message-ID:  <19980905232928.A27490@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809052242.PAA06696@word.smith.net.au>; from "Mike Smith" on Sat Sep  5 15:42:30 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809051806460.2918-100000@zone.syracuse.net> <199809052242.PAA06696@word.smith.net.au>

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In the last episode (Sep 05), Mike Smith said:
> > Well, hell, maybe I need to start a complete reimplimentation of the
> > QuickCam driver!! In the short term, though, I can work on a few things:
> > 	* VC support (at least to make it not crash!)
> > 		- I have access to a QuickCam VC, so I can certainly test
> > it out; I will attempt to look for more information regarding the
> > protocol, but if I run into any NDA's, I'm not gonna be able to contribute
> > any code I make :(
> > 	* ppbus support... sure, don't see that being way too hard
> > Any caveats for me before I start with the VC stuff?
> 
> Yeah, the documentation is only available under NDA.

As far as I know, the code isn't available, period.  Connectix is
afraid people will steal the compression codec, apparently.  The
unofficial QuickCam 3rd-party drivers page, http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/
goes so far as to recommend people buy the Panasonic Eggcam instead. 
It's a regular color camera, and the A-D card is a BT848-based card, so
there is no lack of support :)

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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