Re: web-camera

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:27:06AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 22:06, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 04:12:32PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > I dont have a camera in my screen (like a laptop would). I have a LogiTech
> > > web-cam hooked to my flat-screen, and plugged into a USB port.
> > > Would this make a difference?
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:07:26AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > > > I installed Cheese. It does not work on my system.
> > > > > Any other options for web-cameras?
> > > >
> > > > I use ffplay (playing)/ffmpeg (recording).
> >
> > No, either way ffplay4 /dev/video0
> 
> Pray forgive my ignorance, but where do you get ffplay4 from? it
> certainly is not part of multimedia/ffmpeg4, there is even
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --disable-ffplay
> in the Makefile (but even if you take it out or replace it with
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-ffplay it doesn't get built - at
> least for me on -current pkgsrc tree.
> 
> 
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It's a separate package, multimedia/ffplay4