Re: USB camera

haro_at_kgt.co.jp
Date: 08/24/05

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    To: oberman@es.net, lw@land.ru
    
    

    Hi,

    I'm not sure if this helps, but....
    Have you looked in to the following URL?
    http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~takam/bsd/NetBSD.html

    This page has some info on getting some USB camera running
    on NetBSD and FreeBSD.

    Hope this helps,
     Haro

    From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
    Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:48:48 -0700
    ::> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:36:21 +0300
    ::> From: Oleg Korecky <lw@land.ru>
    ::> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
    ::>
    ::>
    ::> Did sombody know how I able grab video stream from USB camera ?
    ::>
    ::> Sorry for my bad english!
    ::
    ::Far better than my Russian!
    ::
    ::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.
    ::
    ::As of today, the only video input available for FreeBSD is a video
    ::capture card using bktr(4). These devices are fairly inexpensive (at
    ::leat in the US) at about $25. Less on ebay. But you then need a camera
    ::offering composite video out and these can be a bit harder to come by.
    ::--
    ::R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
    ::Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
    ::Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
    ::E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
    ::

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