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Port details

multimedia/webcamd 5.17.1.2_3

Port of Linux USB webcam and DVB drivers into userspace

0
unaddressed
0
VuXML only
0
fixed
2
open problem reports

Port info

Maintainer
me@kuon.ch
Packages
latest: 5.17.1.2_3
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 5.17.1.2_3 · 3982e2c032
Quarterly
2026Q4: 5.17.1.2_3
WWW
https://github.com/hselasky/webcamd
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install webcamd
installs 5.17.1.2_3 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 5.17.1.2_3
Port
# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd config  # change options first
Size
1.8 MiB download · 5.6 MiB installed
Depends on
nothing
License
GPLv2
Creates
user webcamd, group webcamd
Options
6 of 11 on in the package: COMPAT32 DVB INPUT RADIO V4L2LOOPBACK WEBCAM
Show the 5 options that are off
DEBUG KEYBOARD MOUSE VT_CLIENT VT_SERVER
pkg-message
Shown after installing
1) To start webcamd(8) automatically at system startup:

	# sysrc webcamd_enable=YES

2) Please restart devd(8) to start webcamd(8):

	# service devd restart

3) Users requiring webcamd must be members of the "webcamd" group:

	# pw groupmod webcamd -m <username>

4) If webcamd still did not start, consult the installed webcamd rc.d
script for more help and instructions on how to start webcamd.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 165.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_3–
FreeBSD 155.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_3–
FreeBSD 145.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_3

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 155.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_3–
FreeBSD 145.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_35.17.1.2_3

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 5.17.1.2_3.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (2) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

PRSummaryStatusChanged
269933multimedia/webcamd: Fails with the USB camera 058f:3861Open2025-10-26
252099maintainer-feedback? multimedia/webcamd after a stop of the webcamd service, the service will not startOpen2025-04-09

Commits (105)

Koop Mast (kwm) · 0.1.10
Update to 0.1.10.

Add more drivers. Fix double buffering of BULK transfers.

Fix incorrectly defined FE_GET_PROPERTY ioctl for which the workaround
as used in the Linux drivers doesn't work on FreeBSD; more details in
this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-April/010958.html [1]

Submitted by:	Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> (maintainer)
		Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> [1]
60c34f64c1
Doug Barton (dougb) · 0.1.8
Begin the process of deprecating sysutils/rc_subr by s#. %%RC_SUBR%%#. /etc/rc.subr#
1d6b4b3f91
Koop Mast (kwm) · 0.1.8
Update to 0.1.8.

Support usb dvb (Digital Video Broadcast) devices.

Submitted by:	Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky AT FreeBSD.org>
9dc621ce4f
Koop Mast (kwm) · 0.1.4
Update to 0.1.4.

Submitted by:	maintainer
3e0336c284
Koop Mast (kwm) · 0.1.0
Webcamd is a 500KiloByte daemon that enables use of hundreds of different USB based webcam devices under the FreeBSD-8/9 operating system. The webcam daemon is basically an application which is a port of Video4Linux USB webcam drivers into userspace on FreeBSD. The daemon currently depends on libc, pthreads, libusb and the VIDEO4BSD kernel module.

Submitted by:	Andrew Thompson <thompsa AT FreeBSD.org>
		Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky AT FreeBSD.org>
69f1e54d3f
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