Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:14:39 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <42BCDA2F.5020907@tsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050624205753.C47411@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <42B667D0.8020003@tsoft.com> <20050624205753.C47411@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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> >There has been talk on and off on -multimedia about a Video4BSD API that >would handle most image-capture devices. > >A big problem with your average USB webcam is that there are six million >proprietary different camera interfaces and even with an API if there is >no drivers its useless. > > > Yes but there are several major webcam chipsets that get great image quality. Like Philips PWC chipset that is in zillion modern webcams, Divia NV802 -- same. 3-4 supported chipsets would make a great difference already. FreeBSD should be fully suitable to run as home PC and w/out webcam support at all it hardly can. Yuri
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