[Ekiga-list] PVideoDevice required by Ekiga

[Damien Sandras]

Le lundi 19 février 2007 à 21:47 +0100, Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:00:01AM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le vendredi 16 février 2007 ?? 16:50 +0100, Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I am trying to compile Ekiga on OpenBSD and I already cleared a lot of obstacles,
> > > but one of the last is that Ekiga requires PVideoDevice. Looks like it is
> > > in pwlib (libpt-*.so) if video capture is enabled, but this requires
> > > Linux.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way how to tell Ekiga to disable the PVideoDevice requirement?
> > > I don't mind if the video gets completely disabled.
> > > 
> > > Alternatively, is it possible to tell pwlib during compilation to provide
> > > at least some reduced functionality or dummy PVideoDevice so that Ekiga
> > > finds it?
> > > 
> > 
> > I think there is a METEOR interface for BSD. You will have to pluginize
> > the old code to make a plugin out of it and you will have a working
> > Ekiga with video.
> 
> I don't want to pluginize code sorry that would take too much time. Is it
> possible to perform a clean cut in the Ekiga code to disable the video
> capability so it doesn't requite the PVideoDevice object anymore?
> 
> I think for OpenBSD users being able to use Ekiga audio-only for the start
> would be a certain benefit.
> 

I think OPAL has a flag to disable video, same for PWLIB I guess.
However, it needs to patch Ekiga (which could take as much time as
moving the current code to a plugin...)
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