From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu May 16 23:31:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AD637B404 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) id g4H6VZVx065660; Fri, 17 May 2002 08:31:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <200205170631.g4H6VZVx065660@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Webcams In-Reply-To: <3CE4050F.234395FD@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> To: Farooq Mela Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Freebsd-Multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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