From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 14:39:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07BF1065672 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:39:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scjamorim@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9087C8FC16 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so251067fxm.3 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:39:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: scjamorim@bsd.com.br Received: by 10.223.103.142 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:39:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <184385.72257.qm@web50606.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <184385.72257.qm@web50606.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:39:03 -0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 448779379333ee50 Received: by 10.223.100.141 with SMTP id y13mr262924fan.15.1270737543369; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Sylvio Cesar Teixeira To: Robert Kopp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: Ekiga 2.0.11_7: No video X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:39:05 -0000 2010/4/8 Robert Kopp : > 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? --=20 Regards, Sylvio Cesar || FreeBSD Committer sylvio@FreeBSD.org || http://people.freebsd.org/~sylvio || http://www.scjamorim.org