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> 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? > > -- > Eugen Dedu > http://eugen.dedu.free.fr > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > ekiga-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list Addition to my previous post: http://https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=libpt2&project=openSUSE%3A11.3 It says the build requires libv4l-devel, so probably it is compiled with libv4l support, isn't it? Thank you. |