mudskipper
June 16th, 2009, 22:01
Hi,
I am building an interferometer and need a camera for digital acquisition of wavefront images. I built the hardware and wrote analysis and visualisation code on my FreeBSD laptop, so the only thing missing now is a working camera.
Since I need >1Mpx images I have been looking at Firewire camera's. Although these are more expensive than USB counterparts, most of them follow the industrial IIDC standard, which looks like a good thing for interoperability and later upgrades.
Fortunately I saw that the libdc1394 port was added to the ports collection some weeks ago, which provides an API for using IIDC cameras with FreeBSD. However, the few parts of example code that can be found make use of libraw1394, which isn't ported to FreeBSD (though these examples seem to date from version 1.x of libdc1394). libraw1394 is also listed as a dependency for Linux usage of libdc1394.
On the other hand, after installing libdc1394 no references to libraw1394 can be found in its sources. FreeBSD ports doesn't list it as a dependency either.
Can somebody shed light on whether this port can be used in its current state? And does its inclusion in ports perhaps signify that libraw1394 support is on its way?
Thanks.
I am building an interferometer and need a camera for digital acquisition of wavefront images. I built the hardware and wrote analysis and visualisation code on my FreeBSD laptop, so the only thing missing now is a working camera.
Since I need >1Mpx images I have been looking at Firewire camera's. Although these are more expensive than USB counterparts, most of them follow the industrial IIDC standard, which looks like a good thing for interoperability and later upgrades.
Fortunately I saw that the libdc1394 port was added to the ports collection some weeks ago, which provides an API for using IIDC cameras with FreeBSD. However, the few parts of example code that can be found make use of libraw1394, which isn't ported to FreeBSD (though these examples seem to date from version 1.x of libdc1394). libraw1394 is also listed as a dependency for Linux usage of libdc1394.
On the other hand, after installing libdc1394 no references to libraw1394 can be found in its sources. FreeBSD ports doesn't list it as a dependency either.
Can somebody shed light on whether this port can be used in its current state? And does its inclusion in ports perhaps signify that libraw1394 support is on its way?
Thanks.