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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:43:55 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese!
Message-ID:  <478E88AB.60906@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org> <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com>

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Dominique Goncalves wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Jan 14, 2008 8:08 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote:
| One of the new GNOME 2.22 modules is cheese.  Cheese is a small GNOME
| app that drives webcams to take pictures and videos using gstreamer's
| video4linux plug-in.  If you're familiar with MacOS's Photobooth, it's a
| lot like that.
|
| However, it won't work on FreeBSD as it stands now.  The reason is we
| lack webcam support in our hal port.  I do not have a webcam, so I have
| no idea how these devices look.  If anyone out there has a webcam that
| works with FreeBSD, how do you use it?  How is it identified as a webcam
| by the OS?  What device node does it use?  What applications currently
| work with it?
|
|> I use a Logitech Quickcam express, FreeBSD detects the webcam as
|> ugen1: <vendor 0x046d Camera, class 255/255, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2>
on uhub1
|> I just tried graphics/qcamview [1], it works with this:
|
|> % sudo qcamshot /dev/ugen1 > output.ppm
|> USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27
|> 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04
|> quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08
|> quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64
|> quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19
|> quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10
|> quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected
|> Closing Qcam Express.....Done.
|
|> but with qcamview it crash:
|> USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27
|> 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04
|> quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08
|> quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64
|> quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19
|> quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10
|> quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected
|> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
|>   serial 111 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0
|
|> Let me know if you need more information.

Can you use this camera with vlc of ekiga (i.e. any video4linux-enabled
app)?  Cheese will only support v4l devices.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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