Video

[rpowell47]

I'm totally bemused. After installing 14.2, I opened /dev and wanted to change the permissions form my video settings. Low and behold there are no video0 or video1 in the /dev directory. My question what is the procedure to add video to the /dev directory? In /etc group file it shows video: Any procedure would be greatly appreciated.

 

[nxjoseph]

Are you trying to use a webcam? Then I'd suggest using multimedia/webcamd. Can you give more information about your setup? With webcamd, you can create a v4l2loopback device so you'll have /dev/videoX device.

In /etc group file it shows video: Any procedure would be greatly appreciated.

It's a file storing groups on the system and the video there is meant for users that need to run graphical things and access to gpu(?). so here /dev/videoX isn't related to it.

 

[rpowell47]

Are you trying to use a webcam? Then I'd suggest using multimedia/webcamd. Can you give more information about your setup? With webcamd, you can create a v4l2loopback device so you'll have /dev/videoX device.


It's a file storing groups on the system and the video there is meant for users that need to run graphical things and access to gpu(?). so here /dev/videoX isn't related to it.

Yes I use a webcamd and have loaded the pkg install webcamd. And in the /etc group file it shows video:<user name>

 

[Phishfry]

You fail to mention what device you are trying to use 'video' from. That part is helpful.

For webcams I like to get webcamd running from command line then add it to rc.conf.

So the basic premise is run webcamd command and find your 'video' device. Then figure out parameters.

 

[rpowell47]

You fail to mention what device you are trying to use 'video' from. That part is helpful.

For webcams I like to get webcamd running from command line then add it to rc.conf.

So the basic premise is run webcamd command and find your 'video' device. Then figure out parameters.

Yup! that is what I did. Again thanks for your thoughts.

 

[Phishfry]

This page covers it all. The only difference is I add cuse_enable to rc.conf instead of loader.

Using a webcam on FreeBSD in web browsers

How to use your webcam with Chrome and Firefox in FreeBSD

www.davidschlachter.com

Scan computer with usbconfig note your webcams ugen entry.
Move to webcamd and checkout ugen entry.
Add settings to rc.conf
Then pkg install v4l-utils v4l_compat pwcview.

Now reboot and look for /dev/video

Then run pwcview

 

[rpowell47]

This page covers it all. The only difference is I add cuse_enable to rc.conf instead of loader.

Using a webcam on FreeBSD in web browsers

How to use your webcam with Chrome and Firefox in FreeBSD

www.davidschlachter.com

Scan computer with usbconfig note your webcams ugen entry.
Move to webcamd and checkout ugen entry.
Add settings to rc.conf
Then pkg install v4l-utils v4l_compat pwcview.

Now reboot and look for /dev/video

Then run pwcview

Thank you for your help. It's so nice for fellow BSD'rs to help each other. Have a fabulous day!!

 

[fff2024g]

This page covers it all. The only difference is I add cuse_enable to rc.conf instead of loader.

Using a webcam on FreeBSD in web browsers

How to use your webcam with Chrome and Firefox in FreeBSD

www.davidschlachter.com

Scan computer with usbconfig note your webcams ugen entry.
Move to webcamd and checkout ugen entry.
Add settings to rc.conf
Then pkg install v4l-utils v4l_compat pwcview.

Now reboot and look for /dev/video

Then run pwcview

Dear Phishfry :
i have two pc , one is 192.168.0.3 hasing a webcam . other is 192.168.0.4 .. those two pc work in the same LAN. how to play 192.168.0.3 webcam video from 192.168.0.4 ? thanks.

 

[Phishfry]

For streaming webcams you could use something like FFMPEG and stream as RTSP.

FreeBSD nGinx FFmpeg camera recording and live streaming | Unixmen

www.unixmen.com

Do it yourself thread:

Thread 'The Poor Man Online Webcam Server using FreeBSD ;)'

May 12, 2018

Title: The Poor Man Online Webcam Server using FreeBSD
Goal: How to run a Webcam using apache2 http on Freebsd?
Installation time: 15 min
Difficulty: Low


!= What to do first?
Buy a raspberry, install FreeBSD
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry Pi
Bring into crontab a way to make it reachable from the net.
Here a cool DynDNS alternative: https://freedns.afraid.org/
wget will make sure that the url of your webcam is available.

!= Get the scripts for the webcam
Recommended webcam here would be a tpilink.
A tpilink is cheap and of excellent quality. It runs Linux...

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