On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:13:10PM +0200, Stefan Hagen wrote:
Hello Stefan,
> An audio device is special in a way that it has playback and recording
> capabilities in one device. The sysctl is used to allow playback (by
> default) but not allow recording.
>
> Video (as in webcam) is always a
Laurence Tratt wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:45:32PM +0200, Stefan Hagen wrote:
> I have one tangential comment:
>
> > Using a webcam as user
> >
> > To use the webcam as regular user, you need to change the device
> > permissions.
>
> This made me wonder if uvideo should have an
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:45:32PM +0200, Stefan Hagen wrote:
Hello Stefan,
Thanks for this! I'll leave others who are more familiar with the website
guidelines to comment on your patch, but I hope something like it can go in,
as I found it a bit difficult at first to work out how to use webcams
Hi Stefan,
On Sun, 06 Sep 2020, Stefan Hagen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Lauries video(1) email to misc@ encouraged me to take this information
> and try to come up with a proposal to enhance the multimedia faq with
> information about webcam usage.
>
> It's the first time I'm working on a faq article
Stefan Hagen wrote:
> Using a webcam as user
>
>
> To use the webcam as regular user, you need to change the device
> permissions. Only root is allowed to access video devices by default.
>
>
> One way of allowing your user to access the video devices is to change
> the permissions from
Hello,
Lauries video(1) email to misc@ encouraged me to take this information
and try to come up with a proposal to enhance the multimedia faq with
information about webcam usage.
It's the first time I'm working on a faq article and I don't know about
any style guides. I tried to align with the
