Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:44:48 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200506140944.48285.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <44vf4hxbch.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <42AE6EB8.7010409@tsoft.com> <44vf4hxbch.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:27 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> writes: > > What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? > > > > Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing > > them as device with some standardised access. > > > > Under Windows there's whole driver infrastructure of camera > > devices. > > > > What's in FreeBSD ? I couldn't find anything except the old bt848 > > driver and driver for some obsolete parallel port camera. > > > > Am I missing something ? > > I haven't got much interest in this kind of thing myself, but I do > know about: http://vinvin.dyndns.org/projects/pwc_bsd.html Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about webcams as well. For the original message poster: Depending on what you want to do, you can use a digital camera with an AV out port and a TV tuner card to show the image in fxtv and gnome-meeting. I wouldn't know how to stream the image to a web page; but gnome-meeting accepted the TV tuner card as an image source device. Also, if you just want to monitor the room remotely, you could forward fxtv and X over ssh. (Caveat: I haven't messed with this in a long time; so YMMV with newer versions of drivers and ports.) Good luck; and have fun! Andrew Gould
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