Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Palette issue with Mandrake 9.1

[Cristian Atria Cravetto <catria free fr>]

I verified that camstream opens the webcam and the used palette is the one 
that GM claims to be not supported by the kernel...

I read this string when launching camstream...
CVideoDevice::SetPalette picked palette 15 [yuv420p]




On Saturday 29 March 2003 18:18, Cristian Atria Cravetto wrote:
> Hello,
> I have upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 from Mandrake 9.0 and now Gnomemeeting is
> not able to open my Philips webcam:
>
> Error while opening video device /dev/video0, channel 0.
> The chosen Video Image will be transmitted during calls. If you didn't
> choose any image, then the default GnomeMeeting logo will be transmitted.
> Notice that you can always transmit a given image or the GnomeMeeting logo
> by choosing "Picture" as video device.
> Your driver doesn't support the YUV420P format.
>  Please check your kernel driver documentation in order to determine which
> Palette is supported. Set it as GnomeMeeting default with:
>  gconftool --set "/apps/gnomemeeting/devices/color_format" YOURPALETTE
> --type string
>
> Mandrake uses a patched kernel 2.4.21 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) and pwc module
> (8.10?, how to verify the version of a module?).
>
> How can I find the supported pallette?
>
> Fyi, other programs (like camstream) open the webcam without issues. Maybe
> this can be improved in GM?
>
> Thanks for your help....
>
> 	Cristian
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