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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:53:58 +0000
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: webcamd: Adding Linux devices
Message-ID:  <CAFHbX1%2Bh39K=XQq6ZHHSfYRQD=sdGiJRuppYqN8uqwVwAHX-jQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201203201544.36654.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <201203201410.19843.matt@chronos.org.uk> <201203201544.36654.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 15:10:19 Matt Dawson wrote:
>> How would one go about adding a device driver to webcamd? TBS makes a
>> device called the QBox S2 which comes with full sources for a Linux
>> driver and a firmware file. This would be rather useful with a FreeBSD
>> based mythtv backend.
>
> Hi,
>
> 1) Extract the code, and include the Makefile for the driver into the webcamd
> tree.
>
> 2) Then you build and install the linux_make tool from webcamd tarball.
>
> 3) Add the needed configure options to the "config" file.
>
> 4) Type "make configure"
>
> 5) Then build the port like usual.
>

If you haven't already bought this device, you can also use a Techno
Trend S2 3600, or a Pinnacle PCTV 452e, both of which are USB 2 DVB-S2
devices that work with webcamd out of the box.

Cheers

Tom



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