From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 6 20:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.211.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A0D37B503 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.minions.com (bifrost@localhost.minions.com [127.0.0.1]) by adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27889; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Martin Rud Jakobsen Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Which webcam to choose for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <9F13B7E09B37D211B5E40000F81A1A1C9AEC20@011EXCHANGE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I want a new webcam for my FreeBSD box. Great! FreeBSD boxes are awesome for webcams, they can push tons of traffic and not have any degradation. > Anyone knows what cams I can use on my FreeBSD 4.1? The PC is a old 166mhz > Pentium, but it does have USB. > My major concern is to find the software I need to grab the image. At this point, USB cameras under FreeBSD don't seem to be fully supported. There is some initial support, but I couldn't find the cameras supported anywhere :/ I use a BT848 based video capture card with a regular lil camera. It works great! I have software that does streaming JPEG, its super reliable and the quality of the stream is really good. There are a bunch of other softwares out there too, I think there are some in the ports too. --- Tom bifrost@minions.com "Where am I and why am I in this handbasket?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message