Hello,
  I don't have ekiga right here but I am pretty sure the greenish image with
some wite lines or spots is a YUV (or black lines or spots) is an YUV format
encoded video blitted in a RGB surface.
Look if ekiga is linked against SDL - I think that would be a good start. I
didn't used ekiga till now but I am somehow working with video capture
application developpement.
Also look at si command line arguments and see if it says something about
the video part. 
Many of the recent years USB cameras do not stream RGB (just YUV and Ixx)
formats.
For checking for SDL linked to ekiga do an 
ldd ekiga 
and check in the list.

I might also be on the wrong path - however the greenish image is very
typical for YUV-RGB blitting.

Adrian




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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] Philips SPC620NC, Video garbled

"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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