From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 04:14:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DCC16A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:14:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri@tsoft.com) Received: from ylpvm12.prodigy.net (ylpvm12-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639C943D1D for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:14:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri@tsoft.com) Received: from ylpvm01.prodigy.net (ylpvm01-int.prodigy.net [207.115.5.207]) by ylpvm12.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5P4EhG2001312 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:14:44 -0400 Received: from eagle.syrec.org (adsl-63-206-193-240.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.193.240]) by ylpvm01.prodigy.net (8.13.4 dk-milter linux/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5P4EgPG017980; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:14:42 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.syrec.org [127.0.0.1]) by eagle.syrec.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5P4Edjn000733; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:14:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@tsoft.com) Message-ID: <42BCDA2F.5020907@tsoft.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:14:39 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <42B667D0.8020003@tsoft.com> <20050624205753.C47411@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050624205753.C47411@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:14:46 -0000 > >There has been talk on and off on -multimedia about a Video4BSD API that >would handle most image-capture devices. > >A big problem with your average USB webcam is that there are six million >proprietary different camera interfaces and even with an API if there is >no drivers its useless. > > > Yes but there are several major webcam chipsets that get great image quality. Like Philips PWC chipset that is in zillion modern webcams, Divia NV802 -- same. 3-4 supported chipsets would make a great difference already. FreeBSD should be fully suitable to run as home PC and w/out webcam support at all it hardly can. Yuri