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Date:      Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:45:36 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now
Message-ID:  <20100906144536.16557dyteupnlag4@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100906115153.GA4415@current.Sisis.de>
References:  <20091204223126.00005392@unknown> <20091205140927.2b47e0f3@shibato.opal.com> <20100112070644.GA2667@current.Sisis.de> <20100906083439.GA3155@current.Sisis.de> <20100906115153.GA4415@current.Sisis.de>

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Quoting Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> (from Mon, 6 Sep 2010 =20
13:51:53 +0200):

> El d=C3=ADa Monday, September 06, 2010 a las 10:34:39AM +0200, Matthias =
=20
> Apitz escribi=C3=B3:
>
>> If I say all is working fine, there is one small exception: When I plug
>> in my Phillips USB video cam, the device /dev/video0 appears, pwcview(1)
>> works fine and also Skype sees and uses the device. The called party see
>> my picture fine, but locally in Skype I don't have my own picture,
>> neither in the probe window in Options (there it is only black), and not
>> in the call embedded in the picture of the called party (there it's only
>> white). What could be the reason of this?
>
> more info: I run Skype from a command line terminal and there is a
> difference in the moment the 'probe' button is pressed:
>
> Skype in FreeBSD as guest in the VM:
>
> $ skype
> Starting the process...
> Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 1
> Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
> Skype Xv: Using Xv port 56
> Skype Xv: No suitable overlay format found
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Skype in the host:
>
> $ skype
> Starting the process...
> Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 32
> Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
> Skype Xv: Using Xv port 416

What you see is related to the output (X11/Xv). This is not related to =20
v4l. You can run xvinfo on both systems to see the difference of the =20
video output capabilities.

Bye,
Alexander.

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=09The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off
a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works.

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