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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:03:35 +0200
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Cc:        Multimedia discussions <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>, Jashank Jeremy <jashank.jeremy@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Skype not getting video from webcam
Message-ID:  <20101015180335.GA58005@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20101015085746.2777497eh5r8tmio@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <20101004080136.GF11972@vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20101004122927.138867gqu4mf7kw0@webmail.leidinger.net> <20101004110534.GG11972@vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20101005114209.14272n4x7tmc91a8@webmail.leidinger.net> <20101014195533.GA40652@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20101015085746.2777497eh5r8tmio@webmail.leidinger.net>

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:57:46AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> (from Thu, 14 Oct 2010  
> 21:55:33 +0200):
> 
> >Hi,
> >I just tried (stable/8 as of end of 09-2010) skype 2.0.0.72 with
> >webcamd, and the video driver seems to get incorrect data, see
> >
> >http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/doc/skype_webcamd.gif
> >
> >there are changing pixels in the first 8-10 rows
> >(160 pixels each in the preview) which seem to be related
> >to changes in the image. The remaining area is still though
> >not always the same in different runs of the program.
> >
> >The camera with pwcview works at 320x240 and 640x480,
> >but not at 352x288 (for the records, the same camera
> >under 7.x and linux-gspca-kmod did work also at other
> >resolutions, but linux-gspca-kmod is based on a different
> >version of gspca so the problem might be there).
> >
> >Any idea on how to track the issue ?
> 
> Sounds like an issue in webcamd, but if you want to see what skype is  
> telling to do, you can instrument the linuxulator code (linux_ioctl.h)  
> to let ir print what skype wants to do. After that you may have a  
> better idea at what to look at in webcamd.

you mean linux_ioctl.c and the linux_ioctl_v4l call ?

cheers
luigi
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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