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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:10:39 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: some missing bits in multimedia/v4l_compat
Message-ID:  <20070122071039.A93120@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <45B4CE99.4020900@FreeBSD.org>; from flz@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:47:53PM %2B0000
References:  <20070122032640.A90831@xorpc.icir.org> <45B4A58C.8020907@FreeBSD.org> <20070122043720.A91561@xorpc.icir.org> <45B4B1F9.1010808@FreeBSD.org> <20070122044849.E91561@xorpc.icir.org> <45B4CE99.4020900@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:47:53PM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
...
> There might be some other places to ook for but here are a few:
> 
> - http://perforce.freebsd.org/branchView.cgi?BRANCH=julian%5fv4l
> - http://perforce.freebsd.org/branchView.cgi?BRANCH=flz%5fv4l
> - recent hackers@ archives (since last summer IIRC)
> - developers@ archives for licensing information
> 
> I don't have much time to work on it these days but I'd like to hear
> about further improvement. I'm looking forward to the day I'll be able
> to do video conferencing with my iSight on FreeBSD :-)

having a working camera now, at least i can start debugging
the applications.

the only app i have found (though there may be more that i am
not aware of) is ekiga and it does not seem to work.

after a huge amount of time spent upgrating the zillion
pagages it depends on, i first found that it did not see
the camera because when pwlib was built, v4lcompat was not
installed.

Fixed that, it still did not see the camera because
it looks for linux major/minor numbers (fixed, patch going
to be committed soon).

Fixed that, i could see the local image in the video window,
but no video was sent across - not even in an ekiga<->ekiga
setting.


I am also experiencing other bugs with ekiga, e.g.
it remembers the proxy even if it is not registered with it, somehow
fails to exchange sip messages after the first connection,
the usual partial failures in a natted environment,
and finally the program does not exit when you ask it kindly.
Ctrl-\ helps here.

I suppose there are many linux assumptions in the code
at various stages that silently fail when built on FreeBSD.

	cheers
	luigi
> -- 
> Florent Thoumie
> flz@FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD Committer
> 





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