Ekiga3 and webcamd working (was: [FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing)

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:46 am, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> In message <201002022135.04962.jkim at niksun.com>
>
> Jung-uk Kim writes:
> > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 03:28 am, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 08:21:53 Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> > > > Still playing with my netbook.  I now have Ekiga3 running
> > > > with webcamd, video4bsd, libv4l.
> > > >
> > > > The patches are *not* quite ready for prime time but if you
> > > > also do a "setenv LDFLAGS '-L /usr/local/lib'" or equiv for
> > > > your shell it will all work.  The configure and Makefiles may
> > > > need to be patched in plugins/vidinput_v4l2 may need to be
> > > > changed to have /usr/local/lib added to the library search
> > > > path correctly.
> > > >
> > > > The patches are applied to devel/ptlib26 and are all tiny
> > > > changes.  A few less PTRACE lines in vidinput_names.cxx might
> > > > have been plenty.
> > > >
> > > > The sound_oss.cxx patch creates four entries with dsp0, dsp1,
> > > > dsp2, dsp3, rather than four entries each with dsp0 in it.
> > > >
> > > > The patches aren't quite right but it gets ekiga3 running
> > > > with V4L2 for now.  That said, I haven't tried a call yet,
> > > > just the "View -> Show Call Panel" and "View -> Local Video".
> > > >
> > > > Curtis
> > >
> > > One comment:
> > >
> > > See the recent patches for the mplayer port, how to use libv4l1
> > > and libv4l2 for /dev/video access. If you don't use this
> > > library, which is now in /usr/ports/multimedia/libv4l, you
> > > might get trouble getting the picture from your webcam.
> >
> > Interestingly I wrote almost(?) complete patch last weeek:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/ptlib26.diff
> >
> > I sent it to the maintainer but I got no response so far.
>
> That looks similar to the code in there already.  Did you take this
> from netbsd or from the latest code on the ekiga web site since
> this looks a lot like the code that comes with the dist?

No, I did it from scratch.  I'll take a look at upstream patches 
later.

> > > Else your patches look good. I would suggest you call it
> > > "video4linux 2" support, instead of video4bsd support
> >
> > I think we can just (re-/ab-)use V4L option, BTW.
>
> I followed the mplayer lead and added a second entry.

That's fine.  I was just being lazy. :-)

Jung-uk Kim