From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 5 21:31:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16182 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16175 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA27959; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:29:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980905232928.A27490@emsphone.com> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:29:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mike Smith , Brian Feldman Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Terry Lambert , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM question (QCAM question) References: <199809052242.PAA06696@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: <199809052242.PAA06696@word.smith.net.au>; from "Mike Smith" on Sat Sep 5 15:42:30 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message