FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, September 06, 2010 a las 02:45:36PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger escribió:

> >Skype in FreeBSD as guest in the VM:
> >
> >$ 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
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Skype in the host:
> >
> >$ skype
> >Starting the process...
> >Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 32
> >Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
> >Skype Xv: Using Xv port 416
> 
> What you see is related to the output (X11/Xv). This is not related to  
> v4l. You can run xvinfo on both systems to see the difference of the  
> video output capabilities.

In the VM the Xorg server is using the 'vmware' driver (while native the
nvidia driver). The output of xvinfo is rather short in the VM:

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)

Any hint what is missing or wrong in the VM? Thanks

	matthias

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