Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:46:25 -0500 From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@occnc.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> Cc: 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: <201002030546.o135kPFw061845@harbor.orleans.occnc.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:34:49 EST." <201002022135.04962.jkim@niksun.com>
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In message <201002022135.04962.jkim@niksun.com> Jung-uk Kim writes: > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 03:28 am, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > 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. > > Interestingly I wrote almost(?) complete patch last weeek: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/ptlib26.diff > > I sent it to the maintainer but I got no response so far. That looks similar to the code in there already. Did you take this from netbsd or from the latest code on the ekiga web site since this looks a lot like the code that comes with the dist? > > Else your patches look good. I would suggest you call it > > "video4linux 2" support, instead of video4bsd support > > I think we can just (re-/ab-)buse V4L option, BTW. I followed the mplayer lead and added a second entry. > Jung-uk Kim Curtis
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