Some time ago a lot of people where complaining about FreeBSD not having the possibility to use a webcam. Okay, we had a gspca driver and some other drivers but only for v4l1 and most of them don't work anymore. Now we have webcamd and v4l2 and we (The FreeBSD people) can take advantage of that. Webcamd have a lot of drivers and also the important UVC driver. There are a lot of programs that are working with a webcam on linux and now these programs can work on FreeBSD. I have succesfully compiled and run the following programs on FreeBSD:
wxcam
guvcview
effectv
luvcview
uvcview
mplayer
mencoder
mjpg_streamer
uvc_streamer
camorama
camserv
motion
xawtv
zoneminder
I have screenshots of this programs running on FreeBSD 8.0 release. For more information, go to http://www.rockafunk.org/
Making ports of all of this programs can easy be done. I already have the patches. Any help is welcome.
wxcam
guvcview
effectv
luvcview
uvcview
mplayer
mencoder
mjpg_streamer
uvc_streamer
camorama
camserv
motion
xawtv
zoneminder
I have screenshots of this programs running on FreeBSD 8.0 release. For more information, go to http://www.rockafunk.org/
Making ports of all of this programs can easy be done. I already have the patches. Any help is welcome.