Hi, Le dimanche 25 janvier 2009 à 15:10 +0100, Bent a écrit : > Hi List > > With kernel 2.6.27 the spca driver for a lot of webcams, including the > one I have got, was moved into the kernel. At the same time quite a > few video formats were taken out of the driver and moved to a > user-land library - v4l1compat.so. > > This means that in order for me to get video on ekiga, skype and other > applications I have to do something like this: > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ekiga > > My question now is: Is this also required with Ekiga V3? I ask because > my distribution (Gentoo) still is at version 2.0.12. I prefer to use > whatever my distribution provides. I could - and I have done this > before - build Ekiga from sources but is it worth the trouble (conf. > all the posts about build problems ;-)) and will it solve my dilemma? >
If ptlib has been compiled with libv4l support (libv4l being the library, not the ptlib plugin), it should not be required anymore. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[email protected] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
