Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] gnomemeeting + ATI Wonder pro TV Capture card

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 05 janvier 2006 à 15:49 -0500, Sanjay Darisi a écrit :
> Damien Sandras wrote:
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> >Le jeudi 05 janvier 2006 à 12:37 -0500, Sanjay Darisi a écrit :
> >  
> >
> >>Damien Sandras wrote:
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> >>    
> >>
> >>>Le jeudi 05 janvier 2006 à 11:33 -0700, sanjay_darisi leafnetworks net a
> >>>écrit :
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> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>OK, this is what I'm doing. When I open gnomemeeting it tries to read from the camera as it is connected but displays nothing, no video. I can open
> >>>>up all the menus and close them fine (changing any of the settings freezes it too). When I hit the camera button, as you said it tries to stop the
> >>>>video and freezes again (as the button is a toggle button).
> >>>>
> >>>>So, when I start gnomemeeting, it connects to the camera but displays no video.
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>I would need a backtrace at this point of time, if possible in debug
> >>>symbols. But my guess would be that for some reason, the V4L plugin is
> >>>blocked at some stage, due to the driver.
> >>>
> >>>Have you tried reporting the problem to the driver author?
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Backtrace from gdb??
> >>
> >>I don't see any debug statements when I give d -4 as arguement to 
> >>gnomemeeting? I've compiled it from source. Do I have to do something to 
> >>enable debug statements ?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >No...
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I'm just wondering how xawtv was able play the video. I believe it uses 
> >>the V4L plugin right? I haven't reported the problem to the driver 
> >>author yet. Will do it soon.
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >xawtv is not using the same color formats, and it is not using our V4L
> >plugin.
> >
> >
> >I see you built from sources, are you sure of what you have done?
> >Sometimes it can be due to the fact you are using old plugins with a
> >newer pwlib. The fact tht you have no debug output proves something else
> >weird happened.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> This is what I've done,
> 
> --> Downloaded the source packages from downloads section in 
> www.gnomemeeting.org
> --> Unzipped each of them into separate directories
> --> Compiled and PWlib as:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-plugins
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> 
> --> Compiled and built OpenH323 as:
> 
> $ ./configure --enable-rfc2190avcodec=//usr/include/ffmpeg --prefix=/usr/
> 
> /$ make/
> 
> /$ make install/
> 
> --> Compiled and built gnomemeeting as:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-gnome
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> 
> Is there anything else I'm missing??? Btw, i've added the H.263 
> capability in the src/endpoint.cpp file thats all.
> 


The --disable-gnome version is not very well tested, but it should work.
But are you sure your system was clean of PWLIB/OPENH323/GNOMEMEETING
before compiling?
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