Hello, I've the following environment:
host: Win7, VMWare-player guest: FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, Xorg-7.4.1, open-vm-tools-253958 (from FreeBSD' ports collection) The attached USB video cam Philips product 0x0329 works fine in Skype in the above environment, with one small exception: the local view is not presented in Skype and probing for it says on stdout: $ skype Starting the process... Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 1 Skype XShm: XShm support enabled Skype Xv: Using Xv port 56 Skype Xv: No suitable overlay format found An xvinfo gives the following output about the vmware driver: $ xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "VMware Video Engine" number of ports: 1 port base: 56 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 number of attributes: 2 "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute maximum XvImage size: 2048 x 2048 Number of image formats: 3 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) Additional note: without virtualization I'm using in an binary identical system the NVidia driver and this does not show this problem. Any ideas? Should I file a bug report? Thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel