Re: v4l2 and skype

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:06 PM,  <vasaka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>> Jef             |               http://moinejf.free.fr/
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>
> Vasily Levin
>
I maneged to make it work :-) skype seems to do some checks on sanity
of image it gets, so testing it with just noise does not work.

do you need loopback driver in kernel? I am willing to make it good
enough to pass in.

--
Vasily Levin
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