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From: Jeff Francis <jfrancis@psisa.com>
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Subject: Re: QuickCam software port
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:18:46 -0600 (CST)
Cc: MARCOS@eig.unige.ch, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199602151229.HAA27447@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Feb 15, 96 07:29:15 am
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In the wise words of Peter Dufault:

> > I've just bought a QuickCam and found some software for Linux made for it.

> > Is there already a port of QuickCam dedicated softwares to FreeBSD ?

> I can't answer this but I believe the answer is no; there is some
> discussion of QuickCam requiring an NDA (non disclosure aggreement)
> to release the programming info.

	There are patches for the Linux program xfqcam in incoming/ on
ftp.freebsd.org (I believe the name is xfqcam-1.02.patches.tar.gz or
something similar, but the ftp site is down due to disk problems, so I
can't confirm that).  Had it built and running in about ten minutes on
my 2.0.5 box, and it runs almost perfectly.  Only problem I have is
that it won't autodetect the camera, I have to supply it with a
parallel port address.  A small price to pay for such a nifty toy...  ;-)

	Also, check out the QucikCam Reverse Engineering Project at:

	http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/

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