AW: Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ekiga crashes with canon mv830 dv camcorder &usb video devices

[Umut Emin <js_bach freenet de>]

Hei Damien, hei all,

first of all thanx for the reply Damien. So far I understand, i can
only use ekiga if i get a usb-webcam using v4l2,v4l API. At this point
i want to ask you , which webcam is the best buy for ekiga?(i do not
want to get probs after having bought another cam anymore). 

Umut.

>Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:49:35 +0100
>From: Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>
>Subject: Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ekiga crashes with canon mv830 dv
 >       camcorder
>To: GnomeMeeting mailing list <gnomemeeting-list gnome org>
>Cc: jpuydt free fr
>Message-ID: <1143276575 2364 18 camel golgoth01>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15

>Hi,

>The DV and DC plugins are experimental.
>They are not maintained.
>problems. And nobody wants to work on the problems either.

>I think we will remove the DV and DC plugins from the official builds
>if
>nobody steps up to maintain them.

>Le samedi 25 mars 2006  01:18 +0000, Umut Emin a crit :
>> Hei All,
>> 
>> I installed ekiga on my gentoo today. I cant really use it because
>>  it always crashes as it tries to get a picture from the camera.But
>> The Logo doesn't move around, it just stays still. The Video Device
>> section in Options is set right, it shows AVC1394 and the camera type
is
>> shown automatically  correct -Canon MV830 .(camera connected to the
>> computer via firewire)
>> 
>> I click the camera button on the right and everythin freezes. 
>> 
>> I use this camera(canon mv830) on a program called "kino" with the
same
>> connection (over firewire) without having any problems.So i think, i
>> didnt make any mistake with kernel settings...
>> 
>> Here are the packages that i ve installed:
>> 1) pwlib-1.10
>> 2) opal-2.2.1
>> 3) ekiga-2.0.1
>> 
>> So is this a bug? or do i miss something?