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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:24:57 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, Buki <dev@null.cz>
Subject:   Re: USB camera
Message-ID:  <20050824172457.GB4219@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20050824093022.GC12880@dev.null.cz> <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:49:30AM +0100, mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > I'm afraid FreeBSD currently lacks support for USB video devices. There
> > has been discussion of both porting V4L to BSD or creating a BSD video
> > system, but I have yet to see any indication of when or if either will
> > actually be available.
> 
> I think there would be a lot of support for this to happen, but it seems
> to be lacking in leadership and direction at the moment.

FreeBSD is not a top-down organization, it is bottom-up.  In terms of
getting new functionality in, it is not concepts such as "leadership"
and "direction" that are important, it is "volunteers" and "time" and
"determination".

Translation: this won't happen until and unless one or more volunteers
step up and put their time into it.

mcl



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