Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] GM 1.2.1 & Labtec Webcam Pro [spca50x driver]

[Landry <landry breuil free fr>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Hi!
>
>                 Le vendredi 04 mars 2005 à 21:53 +0100, Landry a écrit :
>
> > Hello !
> >
> > First, i'd like to thank D.Sandras for the work he has done. GM is a
> > wonderful tool. I met him at the LSM'04, and found his presentation of
> > GM impressive.
> >
> > I got a problem with my webcam, a Labtec Webcam Pro, which is supported
> > by the spca50x driver [http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html].(not the old
> >  labtec webcam, supported by qc-cam).
<SNIP>
> > I don't know if the problem comes from the driver, from GM, or from v4l...
> >
> > Should i ask the spca50x driver's maintainer instead of this list ? If
> > so, i apologize for this long message, and the noise ... :'(
>
>
> I think it is better to ask him, as it seems that xawtv doesn't work
> either, I would think it is more a driver problem than a GnomeMeeting
> problem. He will probably be able to determine this if he tries
> GnomeMeeting and if it is a problem on our side, we can fix it with
> instructions.
>
> Mplayer seems to work in 640x480, have you tried other sizes :
> 176x144
> 352x288
> 320x240
> 160x120
>
> Those are the sizes that GnomeMeeting is able to deal with.
Finally, after having mailed the maintainer of the driver, we found that 
the driver was not in cause. I made xawtv work with my driver, so the 
driver doesn't seem to be broken.

I've solved the problem by uninstalling GM-1.2.1 / libopenh323-1.15.2 / 
libpt-1.8.3 / libpt-plugins-oss / libpt-plugins-v4l2 (all packages from 
debian unstable)

I installed in place :
gnomemeeting_1.0.2-7_i386.deb
libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5.1_i386.deb 
libpt-plugins-v4l_1.6.6.4-5.1_i386.deb
libopenh323-1.13.2_1.13.5.4-4_i386.deb 
libpt-plugins-alsa_1.6.6.4-5.1_i386.deb

(packages from testing)

And GM works fine now, it detects the webcam (i have just the size of 
the capture to adjust.).
So, in my opinion, the problem comes from v4l2 (experimental, isn't it 
?). A new bug to report ??

I'll try to upgrade to GM-1.2.1 with v4l this time, to see if it fixes 
the problem too.

Thanks for the help.