ports/183713: net-im/libpurple lacking video-chat support

[kaltheat]

>Number:         183713
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       net-im/libpurple lacking video-chat support
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 06 12:10:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     kaltheat
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I wanted to use "video-chat" with Pidgin 2.10.7 (libpurple 2.10.7) and couldn't.

I was able to create /dev/video0 with multimedia/webcamd and multimedia/cuse4bsd-kmod and use it with multimedia/mplayer.

With pidgin one can choose between 3 input-plugin options:
 - "Default"
 - "Test Input"
 - "Video4Linux"

With "Test Input" I'm able to initiate a video-chat through jabber/xmpp/jingle and I can get a video stream of my opponents webcam.

With "Video4Linux" the video-chat-UI crashes while being created.

If I remember correctly 'pidgin -d' reported that there was a gstreamer-error. I will provide more details on this error, as soon as I can test it again ...
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: