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DragonFlyBSD Sees Progress On UVC Webcam Support
For those with a common USB Video Class 'UVC' web camera, it could soon finally see support under the DragonFlyBSD operating system.
While UVC web cameras have long worked well on Linux and various other BSDs and other open-source operating systems, it hasn't been much of a priority for DragonFlyBSD. This BSD operating system though has been seeing work by developer Michael Neumann to port the UVC webcam driver from FreeBSD over to DragonFlyBSD. Michael Neumann shared in a mailing list post that progress is being made and at least being detected by the likes of the Chrome web browser, but it's not yet functional:"I just ported the UVC / webcam driver for FreeBSD to DragonFly.
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