Thank you for your patience! I am sorry guys, I was not that patient, moreover had several more issues with Suse. I tried Mandriva (KDE 4.5.4) and there Ekiga seems to work out of the box with PTLIB/V4L2. So I'll stick to that.
Thank you! Greg. > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:38:15 +0100 > From: eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr > To: ekiga-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] V4L/V4L2 video > > On 28/12/10 02:50, Grigory Maksaev wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:55:31 +0100 > >> From: eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr > >> To: ekiga-list@gnome.org > >> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] V4L/V4L2 video > >> > >> On 28/12/10 00:23, Grigory Maksaev wrote: > >>> > >>> Recently I became a happy owner of a laptop with an upside-down > >>> webcamera, which turned out to be rather a common problem. > >>> > >>> > >>> I fixed the situation relatively easy by using "patched" libv4l libraries > >>> from Hans de Goede, so that the applications using libv4l are OK now > >>> (including Skype). > >>> > >>> However, I'd like to move away from Skype for a number of reasons. > >>> > >>> > >>> The problem that I faced with Ekiga is that I'm only able to get video > >>> from the webcamera if it is set up as GStreamer/V4L2, and video is of > >>> course, upside-down. Sound seems to be OK. > >>> If I try to make camera work as PTLIB/V4L I get the error: > >>> > >>> > >>> "Error while accessing video device USB 2.0 Camera. Your video driver > >>> doesn't support the requested video format." > >>> > >>> > >>> Could anyone help me with this? What I need is just properly working > >>> video - either via V4L2 or V4L - it doesn't matter. > >> > >> If I understand correctly, with PTLIB/V4L and V4L2 the video does not > >> work and you have the above error, while with gstreamer/V4L2 the video > >> works but upside-down? > >> > >> This might come if libv4l is not used. Could you check that ptlib is > >> compiled with libv4l support? In debian for ex. it is, see field > >> Build-Depends at the top of > >> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/ptlib/branches/ptlib-2.6/debian/control?sc=1 > >> . > >> > >> Also, does it work with gstreamer? > > > > Addition to my previous post: > > > > http://https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=libpt2&project=openSUSE%3A11.3 > > > > It says the build requires libv4l-devel, so probably it is compiled with > > libv4l support, isn't it? > > Looking at the spec from > https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=libpt2&project=openSUSE%3A11.3: > > indeed, libv4l is used. > > However, I see that you do not have v4l2_pwplugin.so, how does this > happen? It is the most used video plugin and it is not installed! > Install it, choose it from Preferences->Video->Devices and tell us if it > works. > > -- > Eugen Dedu > http://eugen.dedu.free.fr > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > ekiga-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
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