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Old 1st September 2010
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I don't know the situation on FreeBSD for webcams, but OpenBSD supports UVC devices through uvideo(4).

OpenBSD also includes a V4L2 compatibility library, this allows applications written for Linux to be natively compiled on OpenBSD.. which is multitudes better than using binary emulation.

On OpenBSD, I believe the only user friendly video conferencing software is Ekiga as referenced above by shep.

Eventually in the future OpenBSD's Pidgin port will support audio/video, but there is some framework issues at the moment that need to be worked on.