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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:39:03 -0300
From:      Sylvio Cesar Teixeira <sylvio@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Kopp <kopp.robert@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ekiga 2.0.11_7: No video
Message-ID:  <q2m5859850b1004080739qb0001ce3pd0c5b59e13ec9f32@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <184385.72257.qm@web50606.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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2010/4/8 Robert Kopp <kopp.robert@yahoo.com>:
> I have a new installation of 8.0-release (i386) and a Philips-based Creat=
ive Labs Webcam Pro Ex. The pwc driver was compiled from the port in the di=
stribution.
>
> With Ekiga (installed as a package during the OS installation) I get soun=
d, both input and output, but no video. The echo test works.This is an appl=
ication that was claimed to work with pwc at a Website devoted to that driv=
er: http://raaf.atspace.org/
>
> When the Webcam is used with mpeg4ip, built from the port, video clips ca=
n be made. (The command is "mp4live.") Oddly enough, though this applicatio=
n is supposed to be "experimental," it works fine.
>
> There seems to have been much interesting work done in February 2010 to g=
et Webcams working with Ekiga in FreeBSD, judging from the messages on this=
 list. I do not have much experience as a developer, but if someone could r=
efer me to experimental code or sources of information on this subject, I w=
ould appreciate it. The ports collection of the release version does not ha=
ve, for example, webcamd, though it is used by those attempting to get Ekig=
a to work.


Hi Robert,

Did you test with new version of port? Version 3.2.6:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/ekiga3

Could you test it?


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Regards,

Sylvio Cesar                || FreeBSD Committer
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