From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 13:52:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A8A37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from Danovitsch.dnsq.org (b74143.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.74.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7825E43F93 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Daansite1@Danovitsch.dnsq.org) Received: from there (b83007.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.83.7]) by Danovitsch.dnsq.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id h1KLmII96598; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:48:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Daansite1@Danovitsch.dnsq.org) Message-Id: <200302202148.h1KLmII96598@Danovitsch.dnsq.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" To: jacob rhoden , FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modern (usb) webcam support? Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:52:51 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:16, you wrote: > My searches for information on webcam have not found much, except for some > sites which say FreeBSD does not support USB web cameras. > > Is anyone currently working on support for this? Does anyone have any > ideas about where one could go to get information about where to start > if one was to start writing a driver? At this moment I am writing a userland (ugen) interface for the Logitech Quickcam Zoom. I already get a YUV-packet picture out of the cam at this moment. It's still far from finished, but i'm working on in. Since the Logitech cam uses a module made by Philips, this driver will also support a range of Philips USB webcams. (at least, that's my goal :) > (I am about to buy a webcam for use in windows, it would be nice if I > could choose a webcam which someone is either writing a driver for > or knows where i coudl get information on them so that I could > try and write one). > > Any info appreciated! > > - jacob > > _______________________________________________________ > Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 > ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au > Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message grtz, Daan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message