Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Firewire Video scaling with Coriander & vloopback

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 14 mars 2006 à 12:28 +0000, Erik Chakravarty a écrit :
> Well if you want any testing / debugging done please let me know I'm
> more than happy to contribute to the effort. My webcam is an
> IIDC-compliant Apple iSight, and I run Ekiga 1.99b on an Apple PowerBook
> (Debian/PPC unstable, kernel 2.6.15-1) with videodev modules and
> vloopback modules inserted.
> 

I will probably buy an iSight or trying to get one as donation from
Apple at some point.

> Coriander seems to be able to route only YUV format video through to the
> V4L device. Is this a palette that Ekiga should be able to resize?
> 

I don't know. Luc will tell. Perhaps it was added in the code since
BETA2.

> For the time being it's just a little inconvienience having to sit back
> from the camera. I don't think it's that important to have native
> firewire / IIDC webcam support built into Ekiga because it's easy to use
> Coriander to get V4L output and for camera control, but it'd be quite
> nice to have a scaled stream if it's possible.
> 
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 13:17 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Ekiga is able to resize some video streams for some color palettes.
> > 
> > I do not know about Firewire support, we unfortunately have no device to
> > test or debug the problem so people keep reporting bugs about it :(
> > 
> > 
> > Le mardi 14 mars 2006 à 12:13 +0000, Erik Chakravarty a écrit :
> > > My firewire webcam is capable of 640x480 at 30fps, however because at
> > > this resolution the image is far too "zoomed in" in Ekiga, I change the
> > > format to 320x240 with Coriander, before I use it to route the video
> > > data through the vloopback device for Ekiga.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that the resolution is still a little too high - can't
> > > Ekiga scale the video stream down a little to fit the whole image into
> > > the display? If not, is this something that even *should* be done by
> > > Ekiga or at a lower level?
> > > 
> > > Of course if there is a solution any pointers would be much appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Erik
> > > 
> > > 
> 
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