Re: [Ekiga-list] Using ekiga 3 in "real life"

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le samedi 17 janvier 2009 à 18:48 +0100, Lionel Dricot a écrit :
> 
> 
>         
>         > - Ekiga 3 cannot detect "small webcam" which is working
>         perfectly
>         > under Ekiga 2. On my laptop, Ekiga 3 says that the webcam
>         driver
>         > doesn't support "the color profile". On my girlfriend's
>         laptop, it
>         > says that "it cannot open SN9C1xx PC" (it seems that it
>         still thinks
>         > he's using "big webcam"). small webcam is working perfectly
>         with Ekiga
>         > 2, Cheese and every Gstreamer application. but it's not
>         working at all
>         > with ekiga 3 on both PC.
>         
>         
>         I suspect your webcam driver is using the V4L (version 1) API,
>         thus you
>         need to install the PTLIB plugin for V4L1
>         In my PPA, the package's name for this plugin is
>         libpt-2.3-plugins-v4l
>         
>         In https://launchpad.net/~tlbdk/+archive repository it is:
>         libpt-2.4.2-plugins-v4l
> 
> No, under Ekiga 2, this webcam is working perfectly with V4L2 (and not
> with V4L). It's the same under Gstreamer application.  This really
> looks like a regression.
> 
> The error, in french, is :
> 
> Erreur lors de l'ouverture du périphérique vidéo CIF Single Chip     
> 
> Votre pilote ne semble prendre en charge aucun des formats de couleurs
> pris en charge par Ekiga.
> Veuillez lire la documentation de votre pilote noyau pour déterminer
> quelle palette est prise en charge.

What about trying other sizes?

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