FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> (from Mon, 6 Sep 2010  
13:51:53 +0200):

> El día Monday, September 06, 2010 a las 10:34:39AM +0200, Matthias  
> Apitz escribió:
>
>> If I say all is working fine, there is one small exception: When I plug
>> in my Phillips USB video cam, the device /dev/video0 appears, pwcview(1)
>> works fine and also Skype sees and uses the device. The called party see
>> my picture fine, but locally in Skype I don't have my own picture,
>> neither in the probe window in Options (there it is only black), and not
>> in the call embedded in the picture of the called party (there it's only
>> white). What could be the reason of this?
>
> more info: I run Skype from a command line terminal and there is a
> difference in the moment the 'probe' button is pressed:
>
> 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.

Bye,
Alexander.

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