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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
Cc:        multimedia@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QCAM: Nothing works! :(
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960217140105.2771A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602172128.QAA26397@Glock.COM>

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On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, matthew c. mead wrote:

> > We'll start with NV:
> 	Hmm... Since I seem to have gotten nv the closest (comparing my results
> with others), my nv tree is at ftp://ftp.goof.com/users/mmead/nv.tar.gz - grab
> it if you like...

Thanks for that one.

> > NEXT:  vic
> 
> > I pulled vicbin-2.7a32-linux.tar.gz from Crynwr's (sp?) home site.  Try 
> > to run it and get:
> > 
> > IP_MULTICAST_LOOP: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Do Linux multicast binaries work under fbsd?  
> 
> 	I'd like to get vic working with qcam support...

I would too, since I like it more than nv.  I would have tried to compile 
that one too, but it requires some odd libraries (like the BLT lib) that 
I don't have here.

> > NEXT:  xfqcam
> 
> 	I have a working FreeBSD binary (only if you don't have bidirectional
> port... for some reason it doesn't work with bidirectional ports).  I've tarred
> my directory including the changes to make it compile with libxforms.a.  It's
> at ftp://ftp.goof.com/users/mmead/xfqcam102.tar.gz

Someone else graciously put up theirs and it's working fine here.

> 
> > NEXT:  tkqcam (from the qcam-0.3 package)
> 
> 	I had problems with this too.  I however *did* get qcam-0.3 working
> just fine.  I use it to update a picture on my webpage each minute.
> ftp://ftp.goof.com/users/mmead/qcam-0.3.tar.gz...

I think my problem here was misunderstanding what qcam does.  I thought 
it was an X app; instead, it takes snapshots.  It was putting them back 
onto stdout and I thought it was barfing all over :)  RTFM....

> 	I know how this feels.  I spent like 4 hours getting some of this stuff
> working... ;(   Hope my tars help.

And I wish I knew some more Unix programming so i could hack on this stuff.

Thanks for your help!

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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