Wxcam for FreeBSD

Wxcam is a webcam viewer and recorder and it is missing in the ports collection.
This program runs on FreeBSD when it is patched. If you have FreeBSD 8 or later this program will run if you first install webcamd. I have made some patches for this program and it runs fine on FreeBSD. There is no port yet put you can try this program by downloading the patches and install-scripts at "http://www.rockafunk.org/wxcam.tar.gz". Just extract in your home directory and read the README. I will try to make a port later.
Just type in your terminal:

fetch http://www.rockafunk.org/patches_and_includes.tar.gz
 
If all it takes is a few patches creating a port for it should be relatively easy.
 
Wxcam

SirDice said:
If all it takes is a few patches creating a port for it should be relatively easy.

The port linux-kmod-compat is needed but the port in the port collection is old. This port include /usr/local/share/linux-kmod-compat/linux_compat/linux/videodev.h and /usr/local/share/linux-kmod-compat/linux_compat/linux/videodev2.h. This header files must be replaced by /usr/local/include/linux/videodev.h and /usr/local/include/linux/videodev2.h from the v4l_compat port. So I must find out how fix this first. Maybe you can help.
 
effectv for FreeBSD

effectv is also missing in the ports collection.
This program runs on FreeBSD with little patching. If you have FreeBSD 8 or later this program will run if you first install webcamd. I have made a small patch for this program and it runs fine on FreeBSD. There is no port yet put you can try this program by downloading the patch at "http://www.rockafunk.org/effectv.tar.gz". Just extract in your home directory and read the README. I will try to make a port later.
Just type in your terminal:

fetch http://www.rockafunk.org/patches_and_includes.tar.gz
 
Keep in mind that for a port to be added to the ports tree all it's dependencies must be in the ports tree too.
 
wxcam and effectv

SirDice said:
Keep in mind that for a port to be added to the ports tree all it's dependencies must be in the ports tree too.

I know about this dependency thing, but thanks to remind me. I have never wrote a port from scratch yet but I do have experience to upgrade ports that maintainers have left alone. I am reading a lot now to be able to do ports from scratch. But if you or anybody can help, please do. I think it is important to have wxcam and effectv in the ports tree. We have pwcview but there are more programs that are working fine with webcamd.
 
Programs working with webcamd:

wxcam, effectv, camserv, camorama, mplayer, mencoder.

I run all of these programs in FreeBSD 8.0 and all are working fine. mplayer can view the webcam and mencoder can record from it.
 
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