From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 3 9:17:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FAF37B60A; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from cs.strath.ac.uk (posh.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.202.3]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29452 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:16:54 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <38E8C3F6.5D8CD25D@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 17:16:54 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: University of Strathclyde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Burr Cc: FreeBSD Multimedia , FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: USB cameras compatible with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Donald, > I know the USB support has improved a lot in > FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, but I'm still not sure if any USB cameras are > supported. There is no support for any USB cameras in FreeBSD. If you want a webcam, you will have to buy a PAL or NTSC camera, and buy a Bt848/Bt878 based TV Card to grab the video. This has been used my many people including myself. As for USB support, over in linux-land, there is support for cameras using the CPiA chipset and the Omnivision OZ511 chipset, which covers the Creative WebCam II and III plus many many OEM cameras. But nothing has been done to write drivers/port drivers over to BSD Unix. Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message