FSWebcam with OpenBSD 4.4
A simple way to test your UVC compatible webcamera (e.g. Philips 1030NC) is to use fswebcam tool. Install the package and try it out. I didn't have any success with the 'list' (e.g. --list-resolutions) capabilites though so I had to try different resolutions by trial and error.
pkg_add fswebcam
fswebcam -S 5 -F 5 -d v4l2:/dev/video -r 1280x1024 -p MJPEG /home/peter/Desktop/philips.jpg
Which produced the following image ...
or ...
References
- http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/uvc/NetBSD-UVC.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvideo&sektion=4
- http://linuxtv.org/downloads/video4linux/API/V4L1_API.html - V4L2 implemented by video(4)
- http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/
- http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/
- http://raaf.atspace.org/
- http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.dedmeet.com/hardware-projects-mainmenu-9/uvc-camera-stream-mainmenu-16.html - uv stream
- ZoneMinder - Video survaillance
- UVC Streamer
- MJPG Streamer - no port exists today it seems
- luvcview
- guvcview - no port exists. Depends on luvcview.
- FSWebcam - OpenBSD support.