Call for testing: USB webcams

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-08-08 from the puffed up for my closeup dept.

A new opportunity for you to help improve the upcoming OpenBSD 7.8 release has turned up. If YOU have a USB webcam you are using or would like to use with our favorite operating system, Kirill Korinsky (kirill@) would like to hear from you after testing recent snapshots.

Kirill's message to misc@ reads:

Subject:    Call for testing: USB webcams
From:       Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill () korins ! ky>
Date:       2025-08-06 13:27:31

misc@,

the latest snapshots for amd64 and arm64 (I haven't checked other
architectures) include my recent changes to add support for H.264 streams
from USB webcams.

I would appreciate it if you could test this against your usual devices to
confirm that I haven't broken anything. You can check the supported formats
with:

	ffplay -list_formats all -i /dev/videoX

Also, since the 7.7 release, uvideo.c has included a performance
optimization to reduce CPU usage, which allows it to support 4K 60 fps raw
streams.

This change should also be safe, but confirmation on any edge cases would be
appreciated.

-- 
wbr, Kirill

There you have it. If you have the time, equipment and the ability to test and report back, don't be shy!

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