Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga && V4L && FreeBSD

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 19 mars 2008 à 17:11 +0100, Matthias Apitz a écrit :
> El día Wednesday, March 19, 2008 a las 09:58:10AM -0400, Steve Ames escribió:
> 
> > The following patch exists in the freebsd port, does it already
> > address this issue?
> > 
> > 
> > --- plugins/vidinput_v4l/vidinput_v4l.cxx.orig	Wed Jan  3 23:37:37 2007
> > +++ plugins/vidinput_v4l/vidinput_v4l.cxx	Wed Feb  7 01:30:50 2007
> > @@ -484,6 +484,15 @@
> >          struct stat s;
> >          if (lstat(devname, &s) == 0) {
> >   
> > +#if defined(P_FREEBSD)
> > +	  // device numbers are irrelevant here, so we match on names instead.
> > +          if (filename.GetLength() <= 5 || filename.Left(5) != "video")
> > +		continue;
> > +	  int num = atoi(filename.Mid(6));
> > +	  if (num < 0 || num > 63)
> > +		continue;
> > +          vid.SetAt(num, devname);
> > +#else
> >            static const int deviceNumbers[] = { 81 };
> >            for (PINDEX i = 0; i < PARRAYSIZE(deviceNumbers); i++) {
> >              if (MAJOR(s.st_rdev) == deviceNumbers[i]) {
> > @@ -493,6 +502,7 @@
> >                }
> >              }
> >            }
> > +#endif
> >          }
> >        }
> >      }
> 
> Yes, I've tried this patch in the source and it picks up the /dev/video0
> file as well;
> 
> now I've the next problem:
> 
> when I make a call h323:10.0.1.40 to the VX700 where I'm sitting with my
> laptop in front of, I can see in Ekiga the local picture from my cam and
> the picture grabed by the cam of the VX700 in side-by-side view
> mode, but the TV the VX700 is connected to only shows the name of the
> session and the rest is dark; I have a -d3 output if this would be
> helpfull for you, Damien; thx for any hint;
> 

Most probably it can not decode the stream sent by Ekiga, 
but as the VSX is not Open Source, I can't really tell why.

Unfortunately, I can not really help with that. Perhaps you should try
the SVN Trunk version of Ekiga, it supports other codecs like H.264. It
will probably work better.
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