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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:43:09 +0100
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FReeBSD.org, nox@FReeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Webcam recommendations
Message-ID:  <20110322164309.GB72610@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110322080355.1792365g00qbog00@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <20110321112141.GA23421@sh4-5.1blu.de> <201103211242.15230.hselasky@c2i.net> <201103211301.36287.hselasky@c2i.net> <4D876D8B.6000103@yandex.ru> <20110322080355.1792365g00qbog00@webmail.leidinger.net>

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:03:55AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> Quoting "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> (from Mon, 21 Mar 2011  
> 18:23:55 +0300):
> 
> > On 21.03.2011 15:01, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> Looks like I was too quick about that. Anyway, maybe you could bother to add
> >> some prints in:
> >>
> >> v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
> >>
> >> Because the V4l1 -> V4L2 translation should already be in place.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > After some time of reading code i understand several things.
> > webcamd contains a bunch of linux kernel drivers. Also any freebsd's
> > application can use v4l1 and v4l2 with /dev/videoX, but linux's
> > binaries can not. They can only use v4l1, because linux.ko supports
> > only v4l1. Anyway webcamd has some v4l1 to v4l2 translation inside.
> > But it does not work for my UVC webcam (translation works, but camera
> > does not) :(
> 
> nox@ has some patches to add v4l2 support to the linuxulator.

Unfortunately not, I only have linuxolator patches for dvb support.
(and still no answer from the Linux guy wrt the header file license,
I wonder if I ended up in his spamfilter twice...)

 :/,
	Juergen



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