John Frankish wrote:
I just spent a couple of weeks trying to get cheese to work.
Did gstreamer compile v4l2src? I believe this is required for the encoder to
work.
I believe so. I did keep the build directories:
$ ls -d gst*
gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gstreamer gstreamer1
I did find some references to v4l in gst-plugins-good-1.2.4/sys/v4l2
The compiled files are:
libgstvideo4linux2.exp
libgstvideo4linux2.la
libgstvideo4linux2.lai
libgstvideo4linux2.so
libgstvideo4linux2.ver
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2bufferpool.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2colorbalance.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2object.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2radio.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2sink.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2src.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2tuner.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2videooverlay.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-gstv4l2vidorient.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-tuner.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-tunerchannel.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-tunernorm.o
libgstvideo4linux2_la-v4l2_calls.o
so I think they are included.
It doesn't look like your problem, but cheese needs
gnome-video-effects and one of the effects uses the gstreamer frei0r
plugin, which has a run time dep on frei0r-plugins.
You also (probably) need libv4l2 and, if "xdg-user-dirs-update"
hasn't been run, cheese will try to save images in the root
directory, which prevents it from working.
I'll install v4l-utils-1.0.1.tar.bz2 and see if that helps. Do you know
the dependencies? Is it jsut CMMI?
Where is xdg-user-dirs-update found?
See
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/cheese-list/2014-May/msg00003.html
Where can I find guvcview? Note that finding the camera does not seem
to be the problem. A little research showed that I needed some kernel
modules and I do have /dev/video0 which should be the camera. It has
correct permissions, but to double check, I ran into the same problem
when running cheese as root.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730786
-- Bruce
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