Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Firewire 1394 DV source for video conferencing

["Hawkeye I. King" <hawkeye1 u washington edu>]

Reposting with the proper subject.  Sorry.

> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:00:52 +0100
> From: Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>
> Subject: Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Firewire 1394 DV source for video
> 	conferencing
>
> Hawkeye I. King wrote:
> > I'm having no luck with DV video on Ekiga, and I'm hoping someone can
> > help me.
> >
> > DV works using dv1394 (this was verified with VLC), but Ekiga doesn't
> > seem to use a dv1394 source.  Anyone know how to use raw DV with V4L or
> > AVC1394 (or whatever!) as a source for Ekiga?
> >
> > FYI, I'm using an ADVC-55 NTSC->DV/Firewire converter to capture and
> > stream analog video from a surgical camera (endoscope).
>
> Use the AVC plugin for pwlib, and it should work.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem to be working.

I believe the AVC plugin is installed, since I have the file
/usr/lib64/pwlib/devices/videoinput/avc_pwplugin.so.  Also, I see the 1394AVC
option under preferences -> video devices.  However, it just says "No device
found" under input devices.

I'm using Ekiga version 1.99.1, and pwlib version 1.9.3-1. Both installed from
binaries (rpms)

Any thoughts?

Thanks again,
Hawkeye King
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle
http://brl.ee.washington.edu