Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] News on debian snapshots

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > * The AVC plugin is not compiled anymore (the package is still there,
> > > > but will be removed soon).  Please tell if you really need it.  It seems
> > > > to me that ptlib needs libraw1394-dev v1, but v1 is not available
> > > > anymore on debian unstable and very soon in testing either.  Here is the
> > > > error I receive with v2 installed:
> > > Just as an FYI Fedora has had AVC disabled for quite a while (since
> > > well before ekiga 3) and had no bug reports or complaints.
> > Have they had disabled DC too?  I need it disable it too...
>
> Not at the moment. The current configure line looks like
> --disable-static --enable-plugins --disable-oss --enable-v4l2
> --disable-avc --disable-v4l but as I'm pretty sure DC cameras are also
> supported by v4l I may well disable it at some point in the future as
> with libv4l support most linux cameras are supported through v4l2 in
> ekiga.

So if I understand correctly, avc and dc PTLIB plugins are in most cases 
superseded by v4l2 PTLIB plugin with libv4l?  In this case I should 
remove these 2 plugins!

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Eugen