Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:23:38 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now Message-ID: <201001120923.38871.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20100112070644.GA2667@current.Sisis.de> References: <20091204223126.00005392@unknown> <20091205140927.2b47e0f3@shibato.opal.com> <20100112070644.GA2667@current.Sisis.de>
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On Tuesday 12 January 2010 08:06:44 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Saturday, December 05, 2009 a las 02:09:27PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd= =20 escribi=F3: > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:31:26 +0100, Alexander Leidinger=20 <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > in case someone wants to use skype (or flash) with his webcam: it is > > > possible now in -current (works at least with multimedia/pwcbsd). > > > > > > No MFC planned yet. The more you test, the more likely it will be that > > > it will be MFCed sooner than later. > > > > > > Bye, > > > Alexander. > > > > Thanks for committing this, Alexander. > > > > A couple of notes. > > > > 1. This code does work on 8.0 and 7.2. If you are interested in > > testing on those systems, you can fetch the files at the URL > > below. > > > > 2. The version committed does not contain support for a video > > clip list (in the VIDIOCSWIN ioctl). This is not a problem > > for the Linux skype port or browser-based flash camera apps > > since these do not use video clipping. > > > > I have added video clip list support in the version on my > > site, below, however there are some caveats which are > > documented on the web page. If you are familiar with the use > > of a V4L video clip list, please take a look at the URL below > > and send feedback. > > > > The latest version is at: > > http://opal.com/freebsd/sys/compat/linux/ > > > > My testing is with a pwc(4) based webcam (in the multimedia/pwc > > port). This driver has V4L support. If you test with any other > > driver, please do send feedback. >=20 > Alexander and jr, >=20 > Thanks for your work! Having this support now in FreeBSD for my > multimedia/pwcbsd based cam in Skype, I'd like to have the same for the c= am > in my EeePC 900, about which Linux says: >=20 > [ 11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > [ 11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 (04f2:b071) > [ 11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo > [ 11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27) >=20 Hi, > Any chance to get this supported in the future? Right now that driver is available from the webcamd package announced earli= er=20 this week, though not BSD licensed. I tried to install Skype on AMD64 and the V4L IOCTL's are not picked up by = the=20 linux_ioctl.c ! Any fix for this? =2D-HPS
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