Since I was reminded by seeing the libv4l update in changelog: I just thought I'd bump this again in case anyone has a clue!
On 2017/03/05 22:57, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017/03/05 22:35, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2017/03/05 23:11, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > > > wrote: > > > > On 2017/03/05 18:53, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> I am running the latest snapshot, but since a few snapshots ago ( i > > > >> don't recall which ) some application using camera are displaying only > > > >> vertical lines gradients. > > > >> > > > >> I use mainly baresip, then I checked with mpv and mplayer. Mpv and > > > >> baresip are showing that vertical lines gradient, mplayer is working > > > >> ok. > > > >> > > > >> I don't know where the problem lies, v4l or gstreamer. I will send > > > >> some info: > > > > > > > > Presumably video(1) still works? > > > > > > > > I wonder if it might be something to do with the llvm/clang update. > > > > > > Yes, video works. I had no idea about this utility, but it is nice. > > > > I just dug out my uvideo to try. Fun, with mpv it looks something like a > > section through the rings of Saturn. I've just tried it with FFmpeg compiled > > using the older version of LLVM/Clang but no difference there. Not sure what > > to try next but I can definitely replicate it. > > > > ...also, it's fine with "ffplay -f video4linux2 /dev/video0" from FFmpeg; > which does use libv4l. > > Things I've tried which are failing: > > mpv (as above) > > vlc (open capture device, video camera, /dev/video0) - crashes often with > a segfault but when it did work I had an interlaced picture with some > repetition > > gstreamer-1.0 ("gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src \! xvimagesink") - also interlaced with > some repetition, but a bit different to vlc > > So there's a mixture of Gtk and Qt and SDL things in the list of failures.. >