From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 00:43:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7910D106566B for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D128FC14 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49180CB2A0 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:43:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:43:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=cqG1Jsa2JzaL+lvBiKTQtQ18Whc=; b=Ex5gGjOnoGb13i54g6hhBPaOcLTTPOtqI4BCgdngTDyukc/ewjCmtAhYq5Cv4lG96VAbrI7tqnXri01R2VqiCZuNYf36awoVB2853O0HFl18zKmkiorSSdjEtACLdNNlw4B6RXSnD5qJ8Kx1tA5PI5EapYbzc1B2MCPs7n0X8TY= X-Sasl-enc: AetTWij86X0QZGxsqbcYIx1Kmb9RTUGI+xCzXfVn80fI 1263170588 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (cpc2-dals7-0-0-cust253.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C64F4AC4EE for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:43:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B4A741B.6050804@incunabulum.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:43:07 +0000 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <201001101437.37269.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <201001101437.37269.hselasky@c2i.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:43:12 -0000 I don't have any USB webcams at the moment, but you might want to try these drivers with Spook, a lightweight RTP/RTSP streamer originally for Linux: http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/spook/ Spook can use the V4L 1.x mmap() interface. I tried it with a one of Luigi's ported drivers; it was not always stable, but it was able to stream. It may be a good 'soak test' for the drivers. As far as I know, the V4L2 API isn't in a BSD compatible form yet. This seems to be needed to be able to deal with capture devices which can read compressed frames from the device directly. cheers, Bruce