Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:28:48 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, curtis@occnc.com Subject: Re: Ekiga3 and webcamd working (was: [FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing) Message-ID: <201002020928.49017.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <201002020721.o127Lr5e018528@harbor.orleans.occnc.com> References: <201002020721.o127Lr5e018528@harbor.orleans.occnc.com>
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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 08:21:53 Curtis Villamizar wrote: > Still playing with my netbook. I now have Ekiga3 running with > webcamd, video4bsd, libv4l. > > The patches are *not* quite ready for prime time but if you also do a > "setenv LDFLAGS '-L /usr/local/lib'" or equiv for your shell it will > all work. The configure and Makefiles may need to be patched in > plugins/vidinput_v4l2 may need to be changed to have /usr/local/lib > added to the library search path correctly. > > The patches are applied to devel/ptlib26 and are all tiny changes. A > few less PTRACE lines in vidinput_names.cxx might have been plenty. > > The sound_oss.cxx patch creates four entries with dsp0, dsp1, dsp2, > dsp3, rather than four entries each with dsp0 in it. > > The patches aren't quite right but it gets ekiga3 running with V4L2 > for now. That said, I haven't tried a call yet, just the "View -> > Show Call Panel" and "View -> Local Video". > > Curtis > One comment: See the recent patches for the mplayer port, how to use libv4l1 and libv4l2 for /dev/video access. If you don't use this library, which is now in /usr/ports/multimedia/libv4l, you might get trouble getting the picture from your webcam. Else your patches look good. I would suggest you call it "video4linux 2" support, instead of video4bsd support. --HPS http://www.rrr.de/~riggs/mplayer/m20100131.tar.bz2
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