On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:57:48 Hans de Goede wrote: > On 02/17/2010 01:04 AM, Adam Baker wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> You need to use libv4l and have your apps patched > >> to use libv4l or use the LD_PRELOAD wrapper. > >> > >> Here is the latest libv4l: > >> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/libv4l-0.6.5-test.tar.gz > >> > >> And here are install instructions: > >> http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/7622.html > > > > libv4l is already packaged by lenny but doing > > > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so xawtv > > > > results in either a plain green screen or a mostly green screen with > > some picture visible behind it. IIRC this is due to a bug in older > > versions of xawtv. I didn't try vlc as it wanted to install too many > > dependencies but I did try cheese which also wouldn't work. Thanks a lot to you both for the pointers! I've gotten vlc to work using v4l1compat.so. The image is recognizable, but the color etc is way off. Haven't found a way to correct that yet. But the main thing for me ATM is that it's working now. > > which suggests that the packaged libv4l is fine and it is just the apps > > that are an issue. > > Anyways I don't know how old the libv4l is in Lenny, but you will want at > least version 0.6.0, as that has some fixes for the pac207 compression, > and prefarably 0.6.1 as that some desirable bug fixes. The releases past > 0.6.2 mainly add support for other webcam compressions. I used the 0.6.3 version from the Lenny Backports repository. Thanks again, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
