Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] 1394 DV cam not recognized?

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz gg3 net>]

On 02/07/2003 at 17:33:56(-0700), chris+gnomemeeting ruvolo net used 0.9K just to say:
> Hi all.  Thanks for working on 1394 DV support.  That is the only video
> device I have.
> 
> However, I am having problems with it.  Gnomemeeting is not recognizing the
> device.  I am using 0.98 via the Debian files from
> http://www.gnomemeeting.org/admin/downloads/latest/debian/
> 
> Can someone confirm for me that these were built with 1394 DV support?
> 
> Gnomemeeting shows /dev/video[01] and Picture for available video devices. 
> A strace shows that it checks /dev/raw1394:
> 
>   lstat64("/dev/raw1394", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(171, 0),
>   ...}) = 0

Weird.

I have no idea why it checks /dev/raw1394.

I tried to uncompress the source from the deb file (can someone suggest a
simple tool for undebbing .deb files in case I ever have to do this again,
because I don't feel like installing dpkg) and then I ran ldd on the
gnomemeeting executable, but I saw no references to 1394. Try it for yourself:

$ ldd /usr/bin/gnomemeeting | grep 1394 || echo "Nope, no firewire support"
Nope, no firewire support

;)

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