Webcamd 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.

Webcamd 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.

pwcview -d /dev/video0 -s vga

Webcamd does not collect any information from its users.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome. The software is available from FreeBSD ports, /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd .