Re: [Ekiga-list] V4L/V4L2 video





> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:55:31 +0100
> From: Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr
> To: ekiga-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] V4L/V4L2 video
>
> On 28/12/10 00:23, Grigory Maksaev wrote:
> >
> > Recently I became a happy owner of a laptop with an upside-down webcamera, which turned out to be rather a common problem.
> >
> >
> > I fixed the situation relatively easy by using "patched" libv4l libraries from Hans de Goede, so that the applications using libv4l are OK now (including Skype).
> >
> > However, I'd like to move away from Skype for a number of reasons.
> >
> >
> > The problem that I faced with Ekiga is that I'm only able to get video from the webcamera if it is set up as GStreamer/V4L2, and video is of course, upside-down. Sound seems to be OK.
> > If I try to make camera work as PTLIB/V4L I get the error:
> >
> >
> > "Error while accessing video device USB 2.0 Camera. Your video driver doesn't support the requested video format."
> >
> >
> > Could anyone help me with this? What I need is just properly working video - either via V4L2 or V4L - it doesn't matter.
>
> If I understand correctly, with PTLIB/V4L and V4L2 the video does not
> work and you have the above error, while with gstreamer/V4L2 the video
> works but upside-down?
>
> This might come if libv4l is not used. Could you check that ptlib is
> compiled with libv4l support? In debian for ex. it is, see field
> Build-Depends at the top of
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/ptlib/branches/ptlib-2.6/debian/control?sc=1
> .
>
> Also, does it work with gstreamer?
>
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> Eugen Dedu
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Sorry for this delay, was looking for this package details...
Maybe this will be of some help:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=libpt2&project=openSUSE%3A11.3

there is libpt2.spec in that table, but no traces of libv4l, at least I could not find anything...

Thank you.


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