Re: v4l2 and skype

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:42:07 +0200
> vasaka@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> hello, I am writing v4l2 loopback driver and now it is at working
>> stage. for now it can feed mplayer and luvcview, but silently fails
>> with skype it just shows green screen while buffer rotation is going
>> on. can you help me with debug? I think I missing small and obvious
>> detail. Is there something special about skype way of working with
>> v4l2?
>
> Hello Vasily,
>
> I think skype is not v4l2. Also, I don't know about the frames you send
> to it, but I know it does not understand JPEG.

I started writing this driver just because Skype does not understand
existing v4l loopback drivers and understands uvcvideo, which is pure
v4l2 driver. I am sending to Skype raw yuv frames, also tryed just
random generated Images and skype is just shows green rectangle.
>
>> loopback is here:
>> http://code.google.com/p/v4l2loopback/source/checkout
>> I am feeding it with this app
>> http://code.google.com/p/v4lsink/source/checkout
>> this is the simple gstreamer app which takes data from /dev/video0 and
>> puts it to /dev/video1 which should be my loopback device.
>
> I did not look at your code, but it may be interesting for usermode
> drivers...
>
> BTW, don't use the video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx mailing list. The new
> list is in the Cc: field.
>
> Regards.
>
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Vasily Levin
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