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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:38:01 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, "Richard Kolkovich" <sarumont@sigil.org>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ed Morgan <ejr.morgan@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: uvcvideo on Freebsd (uvideo status check)
Message-ID:  <200907082038.02682.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <bd67ba160907081011u718c22e2n39539e7cb8ca83ff@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bd67ba160907081011u718c22e2n39539e7cb8ca83ff@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 08 July 2009 19:11:05 Ed Morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone had any joy getting webcams that use the uvcvideo driver working
> under FreeBSD? I'm looking at putting FreeBSD back on my laptop, and if the
> webcam will work, that'll clinch it for me. Most of the results i've found
> from trawling Google suggest that uvcvideo is basically not going to work,
> but if anyone knows otherwise?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Ed

There are several projects around, not finished yet, that are about porting 
V4L to BSD.

See thread "USB webcam++ support for FreeBSD-8-current is soon here".

--HPS



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