Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga with Acer Travelmate Crystal Eye Cam

["Conrad Beckert" <conrad_videokonferenz gmx de>]

Hi Julien,

... thanks for the swift reply. On the project page for the uvc driver (http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/) I learned that there is no V4L driver - only V4L2. Though my camera is on the list of the supported devices it proved to be a troublemaker on Ekiga: If I select V4L I get an error message pop up in Ekiga. On V4L2 the green screen shows up with no messages at all.

I can capture images on Kopete though (which is of not much help since Kopete is not of much use for video conferencing) Ffmpeg works either. On Ekiga I don't get an error message - even on -d 6 not.

So downloaded skype (again after many years) and got the following messages:
Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
Starting the process...
Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 16
Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
Skype Xv: Using Xv port 73
Skype Xv: No suitable overlay format found
The test screen will be black.

What's wrong here?

Greetings
Conrad


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:19:30 +0100
> Von: Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>
> An: Ekiga development mailing list <ekiga-devel-list gnome org>
> Betreff: Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga with Acer Travelmate Crystal Eye Cam

> Conrad Beckert a écrit :
> > has anyone succeeded in running Ekiga on an Acer Travelmate (my one is
> model 5720) with the onboard Crystal Eye Camera? According to lsusb it is an
> uvc cam having the ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. I tried Ekiga from the
> repositories.
> > 
> > I get a green blank image on Ubuntu Heron Alpha 6 064e:a101 Suyin Corp.
> while the camera indeed works on e.g. Kopete (but fails on Linphone too)
> > 
> > What's going on? Any ideas?
> 
> Did you try with both the V4L and V4L2 plugin ?
> 
> Snark
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