Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:53:58 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: webcamd: Adding Linux devices Message-ID: <CAFHbX1%2Bh39K=XQq6ZHHSfYRQD=sdGiJRuppYqN8uqwVwAHX-jQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201203201544.36654.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <201203201410.19843.matt@chronos.org.uk> <201203201544.36654.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 March 2012 15:10:19 Matt Dawson wrote: >> How would one go about adding a device driver to webcamd? TBS makes a >> device called the QBox S2 which comes with full sources for a Linux >> driver and a firmware file. This would be rather useful with a FreeBSD >> based mythtv backend. > > Hi, > > 1) Extract the code, and include the Makefile for the driver into the webcamd > tree. > > 2) Then you build and install the linux_make tool from webcamd tarball. > > 3) Add the needed configure options to the "config" file. > > 4) Type "make configure" > > 5) Then build the port like usual. > If you haven't already bought this device, you can also use a Techno Trend S2 3600, or a Pinnacle PCTV 452e, both of which are USB 2 DVB-S2 devices that work with webcamd out of the box. Cheers Tom
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