Quoting Oliver Fromme <[email protected]> (from Sun, 23 Jan 2011
21:40:38 +0100 (CET)):
The Logitech C210 is a UVC webcam (USB video class), and
webcamd includes a uvc driver, but it says that it is V4L2
only. On the other hand, the Linuxulator's video device
translation layer does not support V4L2, as far as I know.
Correct.
Is that the reason why Skype cannot see my webcam? If so,
Probably yes.
what's the recommended way to solve the problem? All of
Implement v4l2 support in the linuxulator. Have a look at the
emulation archive, nox@ just implemented DVB support in the same way
the v4l(1) support was done: looking at the IOCTLs to determine which
depend upon IOW/IOR macros (the values are switched between FreeBSD
and linux), and to translate pointers (important for the linux32 on
amd64 part). Coding this is not hard, but the analysis is time
consuming. I'm sure he is willing to explain some things in case you
want to get started.
We have the permission to import the v4l2 header (I got the permission
from the authors). It's already in the vendor area, but as we do not
have code which uses it, it is not imported into head.
the webcams currently available for purchase seem to be
UVC ones, so I'm probably stuck with Windows. :-(
Bye,
Alexander.
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