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Hello friends. I just successfully run Logitech Brio 500 (it's a USB-C webcam) on FreeBSD 14.1 and I want to share how. I used this message from forum, with some modifications: 1. install webcamd pkg install webcamd 2. in: /boot/loader.conf cuse_load="YES" in: /etc/rc.conf...

How have folks been using Zoom on FreeBSD, *recently*. When I first picked up FreeBSD in earnest a couple years ago, Zoom's Linux client used to work under Linux compat, but that stopped working quite a while ago. So I switched to running it in the browser. But recently my camera no longer works...

Hello, I have plenty of HDMI to USB 3.0 capture cards plugged into FreeBSD. I use "pwcview" to view the USB capture cards, works great, similar to "video4linux2". However I am getting some serious issues with screen monitor resolution being changed by simply accidentally clicking on the...

FreeBSD-12.3p2 I am trying to set up an A/V capability for chrome. Unlike firefox the chrome browser does not enumerate all of the available sound input devices. It only lists default as the available device. The input device I have configured is a Microsoft-Microsoft-LifeCam-HD-3000 . The...

Hello from France ! Sorry for my english... I own a Webcam Logitech HD PRO C920 for working with motion on FreeBSD 12.3. But, when I launch motion, I got this error message : v4l2_mmap_set: Error querying buffer 0 VIDIOC_QUERYBUF: : Invalid argument You will find attached my motion.conf...

I find a consistent problem with my laptop whenever I run cheese, the screen will turn black and I'll look into the logs and get this following message: Feb 8 21:53:43 Dell kernel: error: [drm:pid12:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung Feb 8 21:53:43 Dell kernel...

One-stop guide on how to get your webcam working inside of a GUI jail, including the microphone. Assumes you already have GUI set up inside the jail. My hardware: Ryzen Threadripper 3960x, NVIDIA 2080 RTX, Logitec C920 Webcam OVERVIEW - Background Info - Load Kernel Modules - Install...

I've been using webcams with FreeBSD, but since I live in a country that has 50 Hz power frequency, there is always flicker from the lights as the camera by default uses 60 Hz. I know you can change the frequency in other operating systems, so I investigated, and it seems the v4l way is to use...

I reinstalled FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE on my ThinkPad T480 and updated it to p10. In my saved configuration files, I copied my rc.conf to the new devices, loaded cuse and webcamd, everything looked fine until I loaded GNOME Cheese, which did not recognize the current devices. I fiddled with the...

I recently purchased a Logitech 1080p Pro Stream webcam, and I couldn't determine why it kept reporting usb_alloc_device: Failure selecting configuration index 0:USB_ERR_SHORT_XFER, port 4, addr 4 (ignored) I have no idea why the OS would expect more data than it received, but I knew this was...

Hi, I have some troubles to start my webcam on my laptop T460s, (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE amd64) I can't even start manually my webcam. Could you help me ? Steps alreday done: 1 - # pkg install webcamd 2 - # usbconfig list ugen0.1: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER...

Hi. I'm facing a problem regarding the operation of my webcam on FreeBSD 12.0-Release-p6. I have a Dell Inspiron running AMD E2 (64 bit) on 4 GB RAM. I've installed webcamd, v4l_compat, libv4l and pwcview. My /boot/loader.conf has the entry cuse_load="YES" and /etc/rc.conf has the entry...

Is device name /dev/video0 or what? Can't find it.. ugen7.3: <GENERAL GENERAL - UVC> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA) bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0200 bDeviceClass = 0x00ef <Miscellaneous device> bDeviceSubClass = 0x0002...

Hi everyone. I want to use my USB Logitech webcam in video calls. :) The webcam works when using pwcview, but when using Cheese it doesn't ("There was an error playing video from the webcam"). When I try to use it with Firefox (WebRTC services), it never works; appear.in doesn't show anything...

Hi :), I'm currently trying to get multimedia/webcamd and multimedia/motion working. My webcam: Logitech C310 HD | Vendor/ProductID (hex): 0x046d:0x081b I used these commands to install webcamd. cd /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd && BATCH=YES make "WITHOUT=HAL" "WITH=VT_CLIENT VT_SERVER"...

Hi all, I am doing some experiments with webcam streaming in FreeBSD-11.1, I got it working but there is a little issue, there is always a delay when I view my stream, I don't find what is wrog in the configuration. These are my configurations and commmands; which I stole here and there from...

I have successfully installed net-im/skype4 on 11.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64). Everything works fine except sending video. The port's pkg-message says:Skype uses /dev/videoX (usually /dev/video0). This device node is created by the drivers for your webcam (eg. multimedia/webcamd). If you selected the...