"Adrian Sergiu DARABANT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I am using a Philips SPC620NC webcam with the v4l2 driver. If a access
>> the webcam using e.g. mplayer, everything works fine (example
>> screenshot: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15698358/Screenshot-MPlayer-1.png
>> ).
>>
>> However, if I try to access the webcam using ekiga (www.ekiga.org),
>> the video is garbled. It is only green and has horizontal lines all
>> over it: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15698333/Screenshot-Ekiga.png
>>
>> I suppose this is more likely to be an ekiga bug, but since I'm not
>> entirely sure, I wanted to ask here as well. Has anyone else
>> encountered this problem, maybe with a different application? Or is
>> there something I could do with the driver to avoid the problem?
>
> Isn't that due to the fact that you are looking at an YUV video flow
> and ekiga thinks is something else? It seems to me that this is the
> problem. A copy into a surface with a different video encoding.
I don't know... how do I find out if my webcam sends a YUV flow? And
how do I determine the format that ekiga uses?
Thanks for your help,
-Nikolaus
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