Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:01:50 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20050625180150.3b3615a3@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <42BCDA2F.5020907@tsoft.com> References: <42B667D0.8020003@tsoft.com> <20050624205753.C47411@carver.gumbysoft.com> <42BCDA2F.5020907@tsoft.com>
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:14:39 -0700 Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> wrote: > > > > >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. Firewire video capture is workable. Brooktree cards work as well as the PVR250 and IIRC PVR350. Not sure about the price of a firewire cam, but last time I checked uber cheap ntsc cams were easy to find.
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