Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:38:01 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, "Richard Kolkovich" <sarumont@sigil.org>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Cc: Ed Morgan <ejr.morgan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: uvcvideo on Freebsd (uvideo status check) Message-ID: <200907082038.02682.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <bd67ba160907081011u718c22e2n39539e7cb8ca83ff@mail.gmail.com> References: <bd67ba160907081011u718c22e2n39539e7cb8ca83ff@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 08 July 2009 19:11:05 Ed Morgan wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone had any joy getting webcams that use the uvcvideo driver working > under FreeBSD? I'm looking at putting FreeBSD back on my laptop, and if the > webcam will work, that'll clinch it for me. Most of the results i've found > from trawling Google suggest that uvcvideo is basically not going to work, > but if anyone knows otherwise? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks very much. > > Ed There are several projects around, not finished yet, that are about porting V4L to BSD. See thread "USB webcam++ support for FreeBSD-8-current is soon here". --HPS
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