>I installed VLC, and my webcam works, but my microphone does not seem to be >detected at all. dmesg does not list a usb audio device. What should I do >to investigate this? Is there a better application, other than VLC, for >using a webcam with OpenBSD?
Before you install X/KDE, etc., do a vanilla OpenBSD install and read FAQ 13 "multimedia" then test sound from the commandline. >From past experience VLC's docs were way behind implementation (on top of being gigantic) so for debugging it may be the worst application unless you work from source code. -- p