From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 13:26:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD14637B406 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:26:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE3943FE1 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:26:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from merlin.intranet (merlin.intranet [10.0.0.16]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with SMTP id C075312D600; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:26:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:26:49 +0100 From: Benjamin Lutz To: jacob rhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modern (usb) webcam support? Message-Id: <20030221222649.4a323700.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My searches for information on webcam have not found much, except for some > sites which say FreeBSD does not support USB web cameras. My Creative Labs USB Webcam (older Model, Webcam Plus or something it was called) runs ok with /usr/ports/graphics/vid, which supports Webcams with the OV511 and OV511+ chipsets. I don't know for sure if the newer webcams still have this chipset, but I guess they do. Oh, you'll need to code some glue to make vid be useful; all it does is grab an image and write it to stdout, no configurables. Greetings Benjamin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message