webcamd/cuse4bsd && Skype

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, January 04, 2012 a las 08:06:45AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky escribió:

> On Tuesday 03 January 2012 23:20:31 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > 
> > 'V' (capital V) is 0x56, while small 'v' is 0x76, i.e. Skype is sending
> > V4L IOCTL's;
> > 
> > I did a cross-check with pwcview, it sends IOCTL as:
> > cmd=0x40685600, ... i.e. pwcview uses V4L2;
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > and now?
> 
> Webcamd supports both, maybe it shouldn't?

Hi,

Why it should not? I think it is better to do that conversion in FreeBSD
source land, than in Linux binary packages on which we have zero
influence; thanks for your work on this!

> In the webcamd port do:
> 
> make extract patch
> ...

thanks, I will test this over the long weekend and report back;

	matthias
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