Re: Video Source Question

[David Greengas <dave greengas gmail com>]

Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 1:50 AM,  <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
>   
> > It probes various sources until it finds one suitable for use. If
> > there is a problem with your webcam (cheese not detecting it
> > properly), please submit a bug and proide us with details of the
> > device (especially HAL information for camera in question).
> >
> > 2007/11/10, David Greengas <dave greengas gmail com>:
> >
> >     
> > > In order to use my webcam with gstreamer, I needed to enter a custom
> > > source for video input, v4l2src ! jpegdec. After doing this, I can use
> > > gst-launch gconfvideosrc ! gconfvideosink to properly show video.
> > > However, in Cheese, I did not notice any reference to gconfvideosrc. How
> > > does Cheese determine the correct video source if it does not use
> > > gconfvideosrc?
> > >
> > > I am very eager to try out Cheese with my webcam.
> > >
> > >       
>
> I've just added HAL webcam detection to cheese on the
> cheese_0_2_4_refactor branch
> You can try that out if you like.
> You'll need gstreamer compiled from CVS though.
>
> Jaap
>   
I got gstreamer cvs installed. I am trying to build svn cheese and I get 
the following error with make

libgstreamer-0.10.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized