From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 11:52:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E03516A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:52:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd4@fadesa.es) Received: from fuego.fadesa.es (fuego.fadesa.es [195.55.55.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B05443D6A for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:52:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd4@fadesa.es) Received: (from root@localhost) by fuego.fadesa.es (8.9.3p2/8.8.8) id NAA32197 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:52:22 +0200 Received: from tierra.fadesa.es(195.55.55.7) by fuego.fadesa.es Wed, 24 Aug 05 13:52:05 +0200 Received: from fadesa.es (filemon.fadesa.es [195.55.55.6] (may be forged)) by tierra.fadesa.es (8.9.3p2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07853 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:51:51 +0200 Sender: fan@fadesa.es Message-ID: <430C5F57.701753DB@fadesa.es> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:51:51 +0200 From: "=?iso-8859-15?Q?Jos=E9?= M. =?iso-8859-15?Q?Fandi=F1o?=" Organization: Inmobiliaria FADESA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.30-ow1 i686) X-Accept-Language: gl, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Logged: Logged by tierra.fadesa.es as NAA07853 at Wed Aug 24 13:51:51 2005 Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB camera X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd4@fadesa.es List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:52:27 -0000 mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote: > > dev@null.cz wrote: > > > I'm afraid FreeBSD currently lacks support for USB video devices. There > > > has been discussion of both porting V4L to BSD or creating a BSD video > > > system, but I have yet to see any indication of when or if either will > > > actually be available. > > that would be really nice, finally a way to use my DVB-T card under FreeBSD > > unfortunately I came to the same conclusion after reading -multimedia archi= > > ve :( > > I think there would be a lot of support for this to happen, but it seems to be lacking in leadership and direction at the moment. The lack of a video capture framework for FreeBSD comes up all the time and is really hurting FreeBSD, > > Apps like TVTime, MythTV and Gnommeeting don't work properly on FreeBSD and this will cause people not to use it (we don't actually have a decently performing TV app on FreeBSD - mplayer is about as good as it gets and whilst that maintains a decent framerate, latency is nasty.). It's only an idea, but what about funding a port of alsa/v4l2? I'll be willing to contribute some money (of my salary) for this to happen. I know about the freebsd foundation but they haven't multimedia as a primary goal. Perhaps some FBSD developer might post a formal requests. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d- s+:+() a31 C+++ UBL+++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N+ o++ K- w--- O+ M+ V- PS+ PE+ Y++ PGP+>+++ t+ 5 X+$ R- tv-- b+++ DI D++>+++ G++ e- h+(++) !r !z ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------