cheese r445 - in trunk/help: . C
- From: dgsiegel svn gnome org
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Subject: cheese r445 - in trunk/help: . C
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:22:15 +0000 (GMT)
Author: dgsiegel
Date: Sun Jan 27 20:22:15 2008
New Revision: 445
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/cheese?rev=445&view=rev
Log:
fix bug #510610 - Typo at the documentation
Modified:
trunk/help/C/cheese.xml
trunk/help/ChangeLog
Modified: trunk/help/C/cheese.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/help/C/cheese.xml (original)
+++ trunk/help/C/cheese.xml Sun Jan 27 20:22:15 2008
@@ -1,88 +1,88 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"; [
- <!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
- <!ENTITY GFDL SYSTEM "fdl-appendix.xml">
- <!ENTITY app "Cheese">
- <!ENTITY application "<application>&app;</application>">
- <!ENTITY appversion "2.22">
- <!ENTITY manrevision "2.22">
-]>
-<!--
- (Do not remove this comment block.)
- Template Maintained by the GNOME Documentation Project:
- http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp
- Template version: 2.0 beta
- Template last modified Feb 12, 2002
--->
-
-<!-- =============Document Header ============================= -->
-<article id="index" lang="en">
-<!-- please do not change the id; for translations, change lang to -->
-<!-- appropriate code -->
-
- <articleinfo>
- <title>&application; Manual</title>
- <abstract role="description">
- <para>
- &application; is a video and photo shoot program that for webcams
- (or other cameras) and can do some cool effects
- </para>
- </abstract>
- <copyright>
- <year>2007</year>
- <holder>daniel g. siegel (dgsiegel gmail com)</holder>
- <holder>Jaap A. Haitsma (jaap haitsma org)</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- <!-- translators: uncomment this:
-
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year>
- <holder>ME-THE-TRANSLATOR (Latin translation)</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- -->
-
-<!-- An address can be added to the publisher information. If a role is
- not specified, the publisher/author is the same for all versions of the
- document. -->
- <publisher role="maintainer">
- <publishername>Joshua Henderson (joshhendo gmail com)</publishername>
- </publisher>
-
- &legal;
- <!-- This file contains link to license for the documentation (GNU FDL), and
- other legal stuff such as "NO WARRANTY" statement. Please do not change
- any of this. -->
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Jaap</firstname>
- <surname>Haitsma</surname>
- <email>jaap haitsma org</email>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Joshua</firstname>
- <surname>Henderson</surname>
- <email>joshhendo gmail com</email>
- </author>
-
-<!-- This is appropriate place for other contributors: translators,
- maintainers, etc. Commented out by default.
- <othercredit role="translator">
- <firstname>Latin</firstname>
- <surname>Translator 1</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Latin Translation Team</orgname>
- <address> <email>translator gnome org</email> </address>
- </affiliation>
- <contrib>Latin translation</contrib>
- </othercredit>
--->
- </authorgroup>
-
- <revhistory>
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"; [
+ <!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
+ <!ENTITY GFDL SYSTEM "fdl-appendix.xml">
+ <!ENTITY app "Cheese">
+ <!ENTITY application "<application>&app;</application>">
+ <!ENTITY appversion "2.22">
+ <!ENTITY manrevision "2.22">
+]>
+<!--
+ (Do not remove this comment block.)
+ Template Maintained by the GNOME Documentation Project:
+ http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp
+ Template version: 2.0 beta
+ Template last modified Feb 12, 2002
+-->
+
+<!-- =============Document Header ============================= -->
+<article id="index" lang="en">
+<!-- please do not change the id; for translations, change lang to -->
+<!-- appropriate code -->
+
+ <articleinfo>
+ <title>&application; Manual</title>
+ <abstract role="description">
+ <para>
+ &application; is a video and photo shoot program that for webcams
+ (or other cameras) and can do some cool effects
+ </para>
+ </abstract>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2007</year>
+ <holder>daniel g. siegel (dgsiegel gmail com)</holder>
+ <holder>Jaap A. Haitsma (jaap haitsma org)</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ <!-- translators: uncomment this:
+
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2006</year>
+ <holder>ME-THE-TRANSLATOR (Latin translation)</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ -->
+
+<!-- An address can be added to the publisher information. If a role is
+ not specified, the publisher/author is the same for all versions of the
+ document. -->
+ <publisher role="maintainer">
+ <publishername>Joshua Henderson (joshhendo gmail com)</publishername>
+ </publisher>
+
+ &legal;
+ <!-- This file contains link to license for the documentation (GNU FDL), and
+ other legal stuff such as "NO WARRANTY" statement. Please do not change
+ any of this. -->
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Jaap</firstname>
+ <surname>Haitsma</surname>
+ <email>jaap haitsma org</email>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Joshua</firstname>
+ <surname>Henderson</surname>
+ <email>joshhendo gmail com</email>
+ </author>
+
+<!-- This is appropriate place for other contributors: translators,
+ maintainers, etc. Commented out by default.
+ <othercredit role="translator">
+ <firstname>Latin</firstname>
+ <surname>Translator 1</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>Latin Translation Team</orgname>
+ <address> <email>translator gnome org</email> </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ <contrib>Latin translation</contrib>
+ </othercredit>
+-->
+ </authorgroup>
+
+ <revhistory>
<revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
@@ -93,393 +93,393 @@
</para>
<para role="publisher">Jaap A. Haitsma</para>
</revdescription>
- </revision>
- <revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
- <date>2008-01-12</date>
- <revdescription>
- <para role="author">Jaap A. Haitsma
- <email>jaap haitsma org</email>
+ </revision>
+ <revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
+ <date>2008-01-12</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Jaap A. Haitsma
+ <email>jaap haitsma org</email>
</para>
- <para role="author">Joshua Henderson
- <email>joshhendo gmail com</email>
- </para>
- <para role="publisher">Jaap A. Haitsma</para>
- </revdescription>
- </revision>
- </revhistory>
-
- <legalnotice>
- <title>Feedback</title>
- <para>
- To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or
- this manual, follow the directions in the
- <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/";
- type="http">&application; Contact Page</ulink>.
- </para>
-<!-- Translators may also add here feedback address for translations -->
- </legalnotice>
- </articleinfo>
-
- <indexterm zone="index">
- <primary>&application;</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm zone="index">
- <primary>cheese</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
-<!-- ============= Document Body ============================= -->
-<!-- ============= Introduction ============================== -->
-<section id="intro">
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <!-- manrevision 2.0 compatibility -->
- <anchor id="aboutex"/>
- <anchor id="notice"/>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>&application;</primary>
- <secondary>Manual</secondary>
- <tertiary>cheese</tertiary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <para>
- &app; is a video and photo shoot application with cool effects
- for the <systemitem>GNOME desktop</systemitem>
- </para>
-
-</section>
-
-<section id="using">
- <title>Usage</title>
- <para>
- The main screen of &app; looks like the screen shot below
+ <para role="author">Joshua Henderson
+ <email>joshhendo gmail com</email>
+ </para>
+ <para role="publisher">Jaap A. Haitsma</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ </revhistory>
+
+ <legalnotice>
+ <title>Feedback</title>
+ <para>
+ To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or
+ this manual, follow the directions in the
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/";
+ type="http">&application; Contact Page</ulink>.
+ </para>
+<!-- Translators may also add here feedback address for translations -->
+ </legalnotice>
+ </articleinfo>
+
+ <indexterm zone="index">
+ <primary>&application;</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm zone="index">
+ <primary>cheese</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+<!-- ============= Document Body ============================= -->
+<!-- ============= Introduction ============================== -->
+<section id="intro">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <!-- manrevision 2.0 compatibility -->
+ <anchor id="aboutex"/>
+ <anchor id="notice"/>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>&application;</primary>
+ <secondary>Manual</secondary>
+ <tertiary>cheese</tertiary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <para>
+ &app; is a video and photo shoot application with cool effects
+ for the <systemitem>GNOME desktop</systemitem>
</para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>&app; screenshot</title>
- <screenshot>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="figures/cheese-screenshot.jpg" format="JPG"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- &app; defaults to photo mode, and needs to be changed to video mode if
- desired.
- </para>
-
- <section id="using-effects">
- <title>Effects</title>
- <para>
- To apply effects to the input of your webcam, click
- the button labelled Effects. When you go to the
+
+</section>
+
+<section id="using">
+ <title>Usage</title>
+ <para>
+ The main screen of &app; looks like the screen shot below
+ </para>
+
+ <figure>
+ <title>&app; screenshot</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/cheese-screenshot.jpg" format="JPG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+
+ <para>
+ &app; defaults to photo mode, and needs to be changed to video mode if
+ desired.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="using-effects">
+ <title>Effects</title>
+ <para>
+ To apply effects to the input of your webcam, click
+ the button labelled Effects. When you go to the
effects window, you will see a window similar to the image below
- <figure>
- <title>&app; effects screenshot</title>
- <screenshot>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="figures/cheese-effects-screenshot.png" format="PNG"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You are able to select numerous effects to apply to your photo. To apply
- an effect, just click on the name or image above, and the button will turn
- to a blue shade. Selecting multiple effects will apply all the effects to
- your image (for example, if you apply âHulkâ and âHorizontal Flipâ, the
- input from the webcam will be altered to have a green shade and be up side down).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="using-photomode">
- <title>Photo Mode</title>
- <para>
- Photo mode is the default mode that &app; opens in. When not in photo mode,
- click the button labelled âPhotoâ or press Alt â P to change to photo mode.
- Photo mode will take a single photo every time the button labelled âTake a
- photoâ or the Spacebar is pressed, and will save to disk.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="using-videomode">
- <title>Video Mode</title>
- <para>
- Video mode is a mode that allows you to take short videos using the webcam.
- When not in video mode, click the button labelled âVideoâ or press Alt â V to
- change to video mode. Video mode will start recording a video every time the
- button labelled âStart Recordingâ or the Spacebar is pressed. The video will stop
- recording and save to disk when the button labelled âStop Recordingâ
- or the Spacebar is pressed.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The video mode does look any different to the screen shot of photo mode,
- except that the button labelled âTake a photoâ will be either âStart Recordingâ
- or âStop Recordingâ (depends if you are currently recording or not),
- and the button labelled âVideoâ is greyed out, whereas the button
- labelled âPhotoâ is not.
- </para>
- </section>
-</section>
-
-<section id="working-with">
- <title>Working with photos and videos</title>
- <section id="takingaphoto">
- <title>Taking a photo</title>
- <para>
- To take a photo in &app;, be sure to be in âPhotoâ mode.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To take a photo, apply the effects that you wish by clicking the button
- labelled âEffectsâ, click on the effects desired as described in a previous section
- and press the button labelled âBackâ. You should now have the effects that
- you clicked on applied to the webcam input.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To take the photo, press the button labelled âTake a photoâ. You will then
- see &application; count down from 3. At the end of the count, your entire screen
- will flash white, and the photo that was just taken will appear in the photo
- stream at the bottom of the program window.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="recordingavideo">
- <title>Taking a video</title>
- <para>
- To take a video in &app;, make sure that the âVideoâ button has been pressed
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To start recording a video, press the button labelled âStart Recordingâ or press the Spacebar.
- The time of how much video has been recorded will appear in the bottom right
- hand corner.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If your video appears to be jerky or have a low
- frame rate (only updating the picture every few seconds), it is very likely
- that the recording will not have this and have a more constant and higher
- frame rate. To stop recording, press the button labelled âStop Recordingâ.
- The video recorded will appear in the photo stream at the bottom of the program.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-</section>
-
-<section id="sharing">
- <title>Sharing Photos and Videos</title>
- <section id="view">
- <title>Viewing a photo or video</title>
- <para>
- To view a video or photo that has been taken, locate it in the photo stream and
- double click on it. Alternatively, you can right click on it and select âOpenâ.
- This will then open the file in the default application for that file type.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="saving">
- <title>Saving photos and videos to an alternate location</title>
- <para>
- To save a photo to an alternate place on your hard drive where you can easily
- find them, fin the photo or video that you wish to save in the photo stream, right
- click on it and select âSave Asâ from the pop-up menu. This will bring up a
- standard âSave Fileâ dialog that will allow you to rename the photo if desired
- and save to any location you wish.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="delete">
- <title>Deleting a photo</title>
- <para>
- To delete a photo from the photo stream, locate the photo you wish to delete in
- the photo stream, left click on it once and press the delete button on your
- keyboard. Alternatively, you can right click on it and click âDeleteâ.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You will be prompted if you wish to delete it from the photo stream. To confirm,
- press the button labelled âMove to Trashâ.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- This will only move the image to the trash/garbage bin, as well as remove from
- your photo stream. This will not remove the photo from your computer. To remove
- it from your trash, you will need to empty your trash.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="email">
- <title>Send a photo by e-mail</title>
- <para>
- Photos can be directly emailed from &app;. You will need to have the default mail
- client set up with an email account, otherwise you will need to set one up. To email
- a photo, locate the photo you wish to email in the photo stream, right click on
- it and select âSend by Mailâ.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This will open the default mail client (for example, Evolution) and a new email
- message with the photo as an attachment.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="account-photo">
- <title>Set as Account Photo</title>
- <para>
- To set a photo as your account photo (which can be viewed from System -> Preferences
- -> About Me, and which will also appear if the login window displays a list of
- user names with photos), locate the photo that you wish to set in &app;, right click
- on it and select âSet as Account Photoâ
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="fspot">
- <title>Export a photo to F-Spot</title>
- <para>
- To export a photo to F-Sport, locate the photo that you wish to export in your photo
- stream, right click on it and select âExport to F-Spotâ. You will then be prompted from
- F-Spot if you wish to import the photos that are sent to it.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Depending on the version of &app; that you are currently using, F-Spot may prompt you
- to import the entire photo stream.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-</section>
-
-<!--<section id="preferences">
- <title>Preferences</title>
-
- <para>
- Describe preferences over here
- </para>
-</section>-->
-
-<section id="faq">
- <title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
- <!--<para>
- These are questions the mailing list gets asked frequently.
- </para>-->
-
- <section id="faq-sluggish">
- <title>The video is sluggish/has a slow response. What can I do?</title>
- <para>
- You may have set "ximagesink" ("X Window System (No Xv)") as video-output.
- This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink"
- ("X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)") in order to let your graphics card do the work.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
- and change the appropriate settings.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-mac">
- <title>I have a Mac with iSight and a ATI graphics card, and the colors are weird.</title>
- <para>
- This is a problem with the ATI graphics card, though there is a work around.
- Change the video-output to custom and insert the following: "ffmpegcolorspace !
- video/x-raw-yuv,format=(fourcc)YV12 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink".
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
- and select custom from the drop down menu.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-work-gstreamer">
- <title>My webcam works with gstreamer, but does not work with &application;. What's wrong?</title>
- <para>
- Using "gstreamer-properties" mentioned in the above question, try changing from
+ <figure>
+ <title>&app; effects screenshot</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/cheese-effects-screenshot.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You are able to select numerous effects to apply to your photo. To apply
+ an effect, just click on the name or image above, and the button will turn
+ to a blue shade. Selecting multiple effects will apply all the effects to
+ your image (for example, if you apply âHulkâ and âHorizontal Flipâ, the
+ input from the webcam will be altered to have a green shade and be up side down).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="using-photomode">
+ <title>Photo Mode</title>
+ <para>
+ Photo mode is the default mode that &app; opens in. When not in photo mode,
+ click the button labelled âPhotoâ or press Alt â P to change to photo mode.
+ Photo mode will take a single photo every time the button labelled âTake a
+ photoâ or the Spacebar is pressed, and will save to disk.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="using-videomode">
+ <title>Video Mode</title>
+ <para>
+ Video mode is a mode that allows you to take short videos using the webcam.
+ When not in video mode, click the button labelled âVideoâ or press Alt â V to
+ change to video mode. Video mode will start recording a video every time the
+ button labelled âStart Recordingâ or the Spacebar is pressed. The video will stop
+ recording and save to disk when the button labelled âStop Recordingâ
+ or the Spacebar is pressed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The video mode does look any different to the screen shot of photo mode,
+ except that the button labelled âTake a photoâ will be either âStart Recordingâ
+ or âStop Recordingâ (depends if you are currently recording or not),
+ and the button labelled âVideoâ is greyed out, whereas the button
+ labelled âPhotoâ is not.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
+<section id="working-with">
+ <title>Working with photos and videos</title>
+ <section id="takingaphoto">
+ <title>Taking a photo</title>
+ <para>
+ To take a photo in &app;, be sure to be in âPhotoâ mode.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To take a photo, apply the effects that you wish by clicking the button
+ labelled âEffectsâ, click on the effects desired as described in a previous section
+ and press the button labelled âBackâ. You should now have the effects that
+ you clicked on applied to the webcam input.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To take the photo, press the button labelled âTake a photoâ. You will then
+ see &application; count down from 3. At the end of the count, your entire screen
+ will flash white, and the photo that was just taken will appear in the photo
+ stream at the bottom of the program window.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="recordingavideo">
+ <title>Taking a video</title>
+ <para>
+ To take a video in &app;, make sure that the âVideoâ button has been pressed
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To start recording a video, press the button labelled âStart Recordingâ or press the Spacebar.
+ The time of how much video has been recorded will appear in the bottom right
+ hand corner.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ If your video appears to be jerky or have a low
+ frame rate (only updating the picture every few seconds), it is very likely
+ that the recording will not have it and, have a more constant and higher
+ frame rate instead. To stop recording, press the button labelled âStop Recordingâ.
+ The video recorded will appear in the photo stream at the bottom of the program.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
+<section id="sharing">
+ <title>Sharing Photos and Videos</title>
+ <section id="view">
+ <title>Viewing a photo or video</title>
+ <para>
+ To view a video or photo that has been taken, locate it in the photo stream and
+ double click on it. Alternatively, you can right click on it and select âOpenâ.
+ This will then open the file in the default application for that file type.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="saving">
+ <title>Saving photos and videos to an alternate location</title>
+ <para>
+ To save a photo to an alternate place on your hard drive where you can easily
+ find them, find the photo or video that you wish to save in the photo stream, right
+ click on it and select âSave Asâ from the pop-up menu. This will bring up a
+ standard âSave Fileâ dialog that will allow you to rename the photo if desired
+ and save to any location you wish.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="delete">
+ <title>Deleting a photo</title>
+ <para>
+ To delete a photo from the photo stream, locate the photo you wish to delete in
+ the photo stream, left click on it once and press the delete button on your
+ keyboard. Alternatively, you can right click on it and click âDeleteâ.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You will be prompted if you wish to delete it from the photo stream. To confirm,
+ press the button labelled âMove to Trashâ.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ This will only move the image to the trash/garbage bin, as well as remove from
+ your photo stream. This will not remove the photo from your computer. To remove
+ it from your trash, you will need to empty your trash.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="email">
+ <title>Send a photo by e-mail</title>
+ <para>
+ Photos can be directly emailed from &app;. You will need to have the default mail
+ client set up with an email account, otherwise you will need to set one up. To email
+ a photo, locate the photo you wish to email in the photo stream, right click on
+ it and select âSend by Mailâ.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This will open the default mail client (for example, Evolution) and a new email
+ message with the photo as an attachment.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="account-photo">
+ <title>Set as Account Photo</title>
+ <para>
+ To set a photo as your account photo (which can be viewed from System -> Preferences
+ -> About Me, and which will also appear if the login window displays a list of
+ user names with photos), locate the photo that you wish to set in &app;, right click
+ on it and select âSet as Account Photoâ
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="fspot">
+ <title>Export a photo to F-Spot</title>
+ <para>
+ To export a photo to F-Sport, locate the photo that you wish to export in your photo
+ stream, right click on it and select âExport to F-Spotâ. You will then be prompted from
+ F-Spot if you wish to import the photos that are sent to it.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Depending on the version of &app; that you are currently using, F-Spot may prompt you
+ to import the entire photo stream.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
+<!--<section id="preferences">
+ <title>Preferences</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Describe preferences over here
+ </para>
+</section>-->
+
+<section id="faq">
+ <title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
+ <!--<para>
+ These are questions the mailing list gets asked frequently.
+ </para>-->
+
+ <section id="faq-sluggish">
+ <title>The video is sluggish/has a slow response. What can I do?</title>
+ <para>
+ You may have set "ximagesink" ("X Window System (No Xv)") as video-output.
+ This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink"
+ ("X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)") in order to let your graphics card do the work.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
+ and change the appropriate settings.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-mac">
+ <title>I have a Mac with iSight and a ATI graphics card, and the colors are weird.</title>
+ <para>
+ This is a problem with the ATI graphics card, though there is a work around.
+ Change the video-output to custom and insert the following: "ffmpegcolorspace !
+ video/x-raw-yuv,format=(fourcc)YV12 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink".
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
+ and select custom from the drop down menu.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-work-gstreamer">
+ <title>My webcam works with gstreamer, but does not work with &application;. What's wrong?</title>
+ <para>
+ Using "gstreamer-properties" mentioned in the above question, try changing from
xvimagesink to ximageskink or vice-versa. If this still does not work run "cheese --verbose" on
the command line and copy the logging into a bug report in our
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
- bug tracker</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-work-other">
- <title>My webcam works with other programs such as Ekiga, Camorama, but not with &application;. What's wrong?</title>
- <para>
- See if your webcam works when testing it in "gstreamer-properties". If it works
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
+ bug tracker</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-work-other">
+ <title>My webcam works with other programs such as Ekiga, Camorama, but not with &application;. What's wrong?</title>
+ <para>
+ See if your webcam works when testing it in "gstreamer-properties". If it works
there, but not in &application;, please file a bug report in our
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
- bug tracker</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-store">
- <title>Where does &application; store my photos?</title>
- <para>
- Your photos are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. You can also save
- them to an alternate location from within &app;. Please see the help
- topic titled "Saving photos and videos to an alternate location" for
- information on this.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-quickcam">
- <title>My Quickcam Express doesn't work with &application;...</title>
- <para>
- or gstreamer, and I see errors like "Not enough buffers. We got 1, we
- want at least 2" in the &application; output. With driver "qc-usb".
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Try running "qcset /dev/video0 compat=dblbuf" to enable double buffer
- compatibility mode, then restart &application;
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="faq-supported-webcams">
- <title>Which cameras are supported</title>
- <para>
- &app; uses gstreamer for video grabbing. So in principle &app; supports
- any camera that works with GStreamer. In principle that should be any camera
- which support video4linux of video4linux2.
- </para>
- </section>
-</section>
-
-<section id="about">
- <title>About</title>
- <para>
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
+ bug tracker</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-store">
+ <title>Where does &application; store my photos?</title>
+ <para>
+ Your photos are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. You can also save
+ them to an alternate location from within &app;. Please see the help
+ topic titled "Saving photos and videos to an alternate location" for
+ information on this.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-quickcam">
+ <title>My Quickcam Express doesn't work with &application;...</title>
+ <para>
+ or gstreamer, and I see errors like "Not enough buffers. We got 1, we
+ want at least 2" in the &application; output. With driver "qc-usb".
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Try running "qcset /dev/video0 compat=dblbuf" to enable double buffer
+ compatibility mode, then restart &application;
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="faq-supported-webcams">
+ <title>Which cameras are supported</title>
+ <para>
+ &app; uses gstreamer for video grabbing. So in principle &app; supports
+ any camera that works with GStreamer. In principle that should be any camera
+ which support video4linux of video4linux2.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
+<section id="about">
+ <title>About</title>
+ <para>
&app; was initially written by daniel g. siegel <email>dgsiegel gmail com</email>.
as a Google Summer of Code project. Later Jaap A. Haitsma <email>jaap haitsma org</email> and also
- others joined daniel in improving Cheese.
- To find more information about &app;, please visit the
- <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese"; type="http">
- &application; web page</ulink>.
- </para>
- <para>
- To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application you can file
- a bug in our
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
- bug tracker</ulink>.
- </para>
- <para>This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU
- General Public license as published by the Free Software
- Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
- any later version. A copy of this license can be found at the
- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"; type="http">GNU site</ulink>, or in the file
- COPYING included with the source code of this program.
- </para>
-</section>
-
+ others joined daniel in improving Cheese.
+ To find more information about &app;, please visit the
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese"; type="http">
+ &application; web page</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application you can file
+ a bug in our
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=cheese"; type="http">
+ bug tracker</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ <para>This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU
+ General Public license as published by the Free Software
+ Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+ any later version. A copy of this license can be found at the
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"; type="http">GNU site</ulink>, or in the file
+ COPYING included with the source code of this program.
+ </para>
+</section>
+
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