Webcam recommendations

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, March 21, 2011 a las 01:01:36PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky escribió:

> On Monday 21 March 2011 12:42:15 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Monday 21 March 2011 12:21:41 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > That's why I think that the man pages of webcamd are not enough, there
> > > should be a note about if v4l or v4l2 is awaited from the application;
> > > or we need some overall table describing the cams(...) from all webcamd
> > > drivers and the application which can be used.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found it!
> > 
> > CONFIG_COMPAT was not defined during build, so the webcam'd V4L2->V4L1
> > layer was never compiled. Can you compile the svn version of webcamd and
> > report back?
> 
> Looks like I was too quick about that. Anyway, maybe you could bother to add 
> some prints in:
> 
> v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
> 
> Because the V4l1 -> V4L2 translation should already be in place.

Yes, it is there already:

#ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT
        /********************************************************
         All other V4L1 calls are handled by v4l1_compat module.
         Those calls will be translated into V4L2 calls, and
         __video_do_ioctl will be called again, with one or more
         V4L2 ioctls.
         ********************************************************/
        if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 'v' && cmd != VIDIOCGMBUF &&
                                _IOC_NR(cmd) < BASE_VIDIOCPRIVATE) {
                return v4l_compat_translate_ioctl(file, cmd, arg,
                                                __video_do_ioctl);
        }
#endif

and now I don't understand why the V4L1 'v' cmds of Skype are not working
correctly; will add some printf's...

	matthias
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