Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] kernel-2.4.21-rc2-ac2, quickcam.o module and gnomemeeting 0.98.0

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Do you have any idea what the "bug" could be?
No other modules are complaining, but the Quickcam module always had
problems with GnomeMeeting....

Thanks,

Le mar 05/08/2003 à 17:07, dballester kernpharma com a écrit :
> Hi To all:
> 
>       I had a problem with the combination explained in the subject of this
> mail.
> 
>       quickcam module ( for my Logitech webcam Express )  compiled without
> problems downlading sources and following instructions from Tuukka Toivonen
> web page http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/quickcam/quickcam.html, and
> Gnomemeeting was rpmed without problems getting rpms from
> www.gnomemeeting.org.
>       Launching gnomemeeting and activating local video was easy and all
> went OK, but connecting with coworkers with MS-Netmeeting/Windows results
> in gnomemeeting erratic behaivour. For example: The MS-Netmeeting is not
> capable to show received video but gnomemeeting shows received video from
> MS-Netmeeting perfectly. The local video showed by gnomemeeting gets
> misconfigured, getting bad image colors and image zoomed and image freezed,
> trying to rescan video dev in the Preferences->Video devices, ends with no
> /dev/videoX detected, only is available the static image. Sometimes
> gnomemeeting entirely frezzes and the process must be killed.
>       Taking a look to the quickcam module messages, it claims that a user
> program ( gnomemeeting in this case ) has any bugs referring in how the
> user program gets video data. The same message invites to use a parameter
> to activate some type of workarround. Activating this parameter solves the
> problem, and the use of gnomemeeting is pleasant again ;)
> 
>       To all users of quickcams based webcams: With the compilation/install
> of the referred module, you obtain a program called qcset. This
> applications is an interface with cam/module parameters. To avoid the
> problems that I had, execute 'qcset /dev/video0 compat=dblbuf' where, in my
> case, /dev/video0 is the video device where the webcam is attached to.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Regards
> 
> David Ballester
> 
> 
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