Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:51:51 +0200 From: "=?iso-8859-15?Q?Jos=E9?= M. =?iso-8859-15?Q?Fandi=F1o?=" <freebsd4@fadesa.es> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB camera Message-ID: <430C5F57.701753DB@fadesa.es> References: <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote: > > dev@null.cz 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. > > that would be really nice, finally a way to use my DVB-T card under FreeBSD > > unfortunately I came to the same conclusion after reading -multimedia archi= > > ve :( > > 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. The lack of a video capture framework for FreeBSD comes up all the time and is really hurting FreeBSD, > > Apps like TVTime, MythTV and Gnommeeting don't work properly on FreeBSD and this will cause people not to use it (we don't actually have a decently performing TV app on FreeBSD - mplayer is about as good as it gets and whilst that maintains a decent framerate, latency is nasty.). It's only an idea, but what about funding a port of alsa/v4l2? I'll be willing to contribute some money (of my salary) for this to happen. I know about the freebsd foundation but they haven't multimedia as a primary goal. Perhaps some FBSD developer might post a formal requests. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d- s+:+() a31 C+++ UBL+++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N+ o++ K- w--- O+ M+ V- PS+ PE+ Y++ PGP+>+++ t+ 5 X+$ R- tv-- b+++ DI D++>+++ G++ e- h+(++) !r !z ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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