From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 09:00:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEC2106564A for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luchesar.iliev@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D2A8FC17 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so3489649bwz.13 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:00:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date :from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vzS+WlMB6MAF8wwPUnEEe+Gr7ESCbOcvepeG5v4fVpM=; b=tX4Ao8T4+lhnkpsdjcxKQ9RbK5QSQh8X2hwK7KZZz/q9vc5vXJEPWFoslHF5FPRtRt S3VLo/tjwzig0q2i9gjjU6pl3+J3UL3U4MqQ+PH3TPqFd3iTwfx5Z5rsjXPrXZxffO5y RBulYua2SJ+cndcQcXdZkI2lE8FPBPUof9E+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:organization :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uTjF45ER0ibo7s+YlQdQ7D3TgQbCK48xC7DU7spc8ii9tQ/FHSgna9pSeRSV1f+Uor hPo46S28JG+AGe3ireu0kz0Nt+qN4y4MpozFoR26t+04UGHrp7FoGAntNP5sLnWcnbLN nCoIsAEI3aJ4X8aBQfsw4HgiVi4FR+QmNZCPA= Received: by 10.204.63.211 with SMTP id c19mr3353218bki.21.1295859615990; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [79.124.93.41] ([79.124.93.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b6sm5937635bkb.10.2011.01.24.01.00.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:00:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D3D3F9C.9010608@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:00:12 +0200 From: "Luchesar V. ILIEV" Organization: Ideaconsult Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101229 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme References: <201101232040.p0NKecDg053547@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <201101232040.p0NKecDg053547@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=9A1FEEFF; url=https://cert.acad.bg/pgp-keys/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: v4l + webcamd + Logitech C210 + Skype (FreeBSD 8-stable) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:19 -0000 On 01/23/2011 22:40, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get Skype working with video support on my > 8-stable machine at home. I've got a shiny new Logitech > C210 webcam. This webcam works perfectly fine on my wife's > Windows machine, FWIW. > > On my FreeBSD box I've installed webcamd and all of its > dependencies, as per HPS' documentation. Basically the > webcam seems to work: I get a clear picture in pwcview(1). > However, Skype doesn't seem to recognize the video device > (I have installed skype-2.0.0.72,1 from ports). > > The Logitech C210 is a UVC webcam (USB video class), and > webcamd includes a uvc driver, but it says that it is V4L2 > only. On the other hand, the Linuxulator's video device > translation layer does not support V4L2, as far as I know. > Is that the reason why Skype cannot see my webcam? If so, > what's the recommended way to solve the problem? All of > the webcams currently available for purchase seem to be > UVC ones, so I'm probably stuck with Windows. :-( > > There's a second issue, but I think it's not related to > emulation: The microphone doesn't seem to be supported. > I haven't found anything related to audio in the webcamd > documentation, so I guess it doesn't support microphones > at all. I don't get any separate audio decvice listed > in the output of usbconfig(8). Do I have to purchase a > separate microphone, even though the C210 webcam already > has a built-in one? > > Best regards > Oliver > Hi Oliver, Probably that's totally irrelevant to your problem, but you might try running Skype like the following and see if it makes any difference: $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /path/to/skype HTH, Luchesar