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Introduction

<B>Webcamd</B> is a small daemon that enables about 1500 different USB based webcam, DVB and remote control USB devices under the FreeBSD operating system. The webcam daemon is basically an application which is a port of Linux USB drivers into userspace on FreeBSD. The daemon currently depends on libc, pthreads, libusb and libcuse.

Licensing

<B>Webcamd</B> is GPLv2 licensed due to the external Linux part which is GPLv2, though some files inside the webcamd remains BSD licensed which allows for building similar BSD licensed daemons.

Testing a USB webcam device

pwcview -d /dev/video0 -s vga

Privacy policy

<B>Webcamd</B> does not collect any information from its users.

Support

Feedback and bug reports are welcome. The software is available from FreeBSD ports, <A HREF="https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/webcamd">/usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd</A> .