Re: multimedia/webcamd future

Am 18.04.24 um 23:56 schrieb Tomoaki AOKI:
> Tracking logs of multimedia/webcamd, it was originally submitted by
> hselasky@ [1], and the upstream was always his repo.
> 
> After he passed away, we lost not only the maintainer, but also
> the upstream, too.

Hans Petters repo is still present until now:
https://github.com/hselasky/webcamd

> 
> Maybe the best way would be forking from current master site and keep
> on doing what Hans Petter did for updating.
> Unfortunately, I'm not the one who is possible to do so.
> 
> [1]
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/multimedia/webcamd?id=69f1e54d3f7fc62718bda0291922cddf8eb28a83
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:40:59 +0100
> Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've found some PRs about it:
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=webcamd&list_id=685477
>>
>> And I'm looking for a well maintained port since I will need to use web
>> conferencing soon.
>>
>> I will install it this weekend and see how it goes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernhard Froehlich <decke@freebsd.org> escreveu (quinta, 18/04/2024 à(s)
>> 12:35):
>>
>>> ---- On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:24:52 +0200 *Nuno Teixeira
>>> <eduardo@freebsd.org <eduardo@freebsd.org>>* wrote ---
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> multimedia/webcamd port and upstream is unmaintained and I'm looking for
>>> similar programs but at same time worried about the future of webcamd.
>>>
>>> Any help on this matter?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah the situation is really sad but nonetheless webcamd is working fine
>>> even with the
>>> DVB-S2 tuners I have. We probably need to update it to a newer kernel in
>>> the future but
>>> the v4l stuff in the linux kernel is quite mature and does not change that
>>> fast.
>>>
>>> Do you have any specific problem with webcamd you are facing?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bernhard Froehlich
>>> https://www.bluelife.at/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Nuno Teixeira
>> FreeBSD Committer (ports)
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