Ekiga && PTlib: pwc.ko ./. webcamd

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, May 26, 2011 a las 03:48:56PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky escribió:

> On Thursday 26 May 2011 15:30:36 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello Hans,
> > 
> > I've ported PTlib, Opal and Ekiga from SVN and Git to FreeBSD HEAD
> > (r220692, ~mid of April); the webcamd(8) is from ports from the same day;
> > 
> > in PTlib is support for V4L (plugin vidinput_v4l.cxx, attached) which
> > works fine in Ekiga when I use the kernel mod pwc.ko (from the ports as
> > well);
> > 
> > it crashes Ekiga when webcamd(8) and its pwc.ko is used while opening
> > the webcam:
> > 
> > stderr:
> > 2011/05/23 16:26:18.817   0:11.012 PVideoInputDevice_V4L: trying to open
> > Philips SPC 900NC webcam
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If Ekiga use the libv4l's methods for open/close/read/write/ioctl/mmap ... 
> then there will be no problem with webcamd I think.
> 
> --HPS

Hi,

Thanks for your hints! Best would be to have a solution in PTlib where
it will work with webcamd(8) and the native pwc.ko, I think.

	matthias

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