Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 19:45:33 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connectix quickcam Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130194106.217M-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960130115907.29070A-100000@terra>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > I did not see this mentioned yet, maybe i missed it but i wanted to make > sure freebsd people knew about it. The connectix quickcam reverse > engineering is finished, so if you buy a quickcam you've got a load of > source to work with. So much for the quickcam NDA. Long live the net. > Just buy the el-cheapo $75 quickcam minus their development software (and > their crummy NDA) and journey to: Ummmm, Actually this is not quite correct. The reverse engineering project is NOT done. There are still MANY problems that are being investigated and worked on.. There are currently user programs that are capable of running the QuickCam, but a kernel driver is needed to achieve any great frame rate. Thomas Davis and myself are currently working on a standard API for the kernel driver, so that Linux/FreeBSD will use the same user programs (which will eventually be rewritten to use the kernel driver instead of raw I/O port access). We expect the kernel driver to be finished within a week or two- It's a fairly simple device (though the driver will change as reverse engineering progresses). Sujal
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