Albert/Kaiwai: There is a project to add V4L drivers to Solaris, and the JDS team is working the Solaris V4L driver team to make it solid enough to build and support the GStreamer V4L plugin. However, it will likely take some time before this is ready.
If you really want to play with cheese and the GStreamer V4L plugin and cheese you can do so. Note the following steps... In order to build the V4L2 GStreamer plugin, you need to rebuild SUNWgnome-media and make sure that --enable-experimental is added to the configure line in the %build section of the base-specs/gst-plugins-good.spec file. Then, as Albert says, you can build the SFEcheese.spec file to build the cheese application. Might be nice to add a new argument to the SUNWgnome-media.spec file like "--with experiemntal" which would just turn on this configure option when it builds the various modules. Brian > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:11 -0700, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A new component of GNOME 2.22.x is the Photobooth clone called "Cheese" - is >> "Cheese" going to appear in the GNOME 2.22.1 distribution? Here is the link >> for those unsure what I am referring to: >> >> http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/ >> >> The reason why I ask is that I am looking at getting a webcam for my laptop >> to create videos for upload to youtube and thus wondering if this is going >> to appear in GNOME 2.22.x (if it isn't, then I'll stuck with using my >> digital camera). > > > Cheese has been in SFE for a while, it works fine, but what is missing > is the gstreamer v4l2 plugin. V4L2 is the interface used by the webcam > driver. I am planning to add the missing gstreamer plugins, possibly as > part of SFEgnome-media-extras (which includes some other plugins right > now). For now, the Flash 9 player can record video and works with > ustream.tv and WengoVisio. > > -Albert > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
