Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:29:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Camera for stable Message-ID: <200608040729.k747TMYS072001@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <44D2EE88.4080508@nikiforov.ru>
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Anton Nikiforov <anton@nikiforov.ru> wrote: > Does someone have some web cam working with Free BSD-stable? > What cameras you are using and what software? (picture download or video > stream - it doesnot matter) Sure. I have a standard cheap PAL camera with composite output (cinch connector). It's connected to a PCI video capture card witg bt848 / bt878 chip (only few bucks on eBay), using the bktr(4) driver. Works perfectly fine with all versions of FreeBSD, from 4.x to current. > I was trying to google the net and find solutions with gphoto and vid. > All this solutions are based on old cameras that i cannot find on the > market. Simple PAL (or NTSC) cameras can be found for small prices everywhere (well, at least over here in Germany). They're commonly used for surveillance purposes etc. There are several German shops who sell them for about 50 Euros. Another possibility is to use an IP camera, which are about 100 Euros. They are completely OS-independent and connect directly to an ethernet network (some also have wireless WLAN); they support standard protocols such as HTTP, FTP and telnet. USB cameras are very, very cheap, but they're really not worth much. The quality is often bad, and you never can tell for sure whether you can make them work with FreeBSD, except by actually trying it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. cat man du : where Unix geeks go when they die
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