Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:31:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> Cc: Freebsd-Multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Webcams Message-ID: <200205170631.g4H6VZVx065660@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3CE4050F.234395FD@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>
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It seems Farooq Mela wrote: > Hello, > > So far, I've been able to surmise that if you want to use a webcam on > FreeBSD, you have one of two options: > > 1) Use a webcam supported by cqcam, which includes the parallel port > versions of the Connectix Color QuickCams and Color Quickcam 2's. > Unfortunately these are hard to find these days. AFAICT, it is only > possible to get them from e-bay etc. > > 2) Hook up a camcorder, X10 camera, or similar to a card supported by > the BKTR driver and use bktr2jpeg or similar to capture frames. This > is my current setup and I find it to be less than optimal. > > Are there any other options available? Is somebody working on support > for any newer (USB) webcams? I do have some code for using CPiA based webcams, for now it just graps a single image for an intrusion detection system, but it should be faily easy to get it to stream pictures if needed.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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