Plans to support web-cams on FreeBSD ?

[Doug White]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Yuri wrote:

>
> Are there plans to support webcams under FreeBSD ?

There has been talk on and off on -multimedia about a Video4BSD API that
would handle most image-capture devices.

A big problem with your average USB webcam is that there are six million
proprietary different camera interfaces and even with an API if there is
no drivers its useless.

> It must be possible to make some infrastructure allowing to use linux
> videodevice drivers with minimal changes.

Good luck :)

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