Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] mpeg and gnomemeeting.

["Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Indeed, but it is weird that only mpeg is available as it is not supported
by Video4linux in general, so few programs will support it.


> Hi,
>    The card hardware encodes video into mpeg format.  All decoding is done
> via software.  The computer isn't aware of the camera, only the tuner
> card.
>
> Thanks!
> Adam
>
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Damien Sandras wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Mpeg encoding is very special, and it is not supported. Are you sure it
>> is the only supported color format of your tv card?
>>
>>
>> Le jeudi 07 juillet 2005 à 15:56 -0500, Adam Miller a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>    I have a P4 3.0GHz machine with 1GB ram runing Fedora Core 3
>>> 2.6.11-1.27FC3smp kernel.  I have gnomemeeting-1.2.1-1.FC3 installed.
>>> I
>>> want to set up a video conference using a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card
>>> with a canon VC-C50i plugged into the S-Video port on the tv tuner
>>> card.
>>> I've installed the ivtv-0.2.0rc3j driver.  When I start gnomemeeting I
>>> get
>>> the following error:
>>>
>>> Your driver doesn't seem to support any of the colour formats supported
>>> by
>>> gnomemeeting.
>>>
>>> The tuner card seems to be encoding the video into mpeg format. I've
>>> read
>>> online that one can use gconftool-2 to set the colour format, however I
>>> have not found much info on how to do this.  Any suggestions would be
>>> helpful. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Adam Miller
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