Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:00 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > > For some reason when I run Ekiga it doesn't detect any v4l or v4l2
> > > drivers...Only picture...
> > >
> > >
> > Does the OS detect your device? I.E:
> >
> >      1. Do you see it in dmesg?
> >      2. Does a device get created (e.g. /dev/video0)
> >      3. Can you read from the device: e.g: $ ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s
> >         800x600 -r 10 -i /dev/video0 test.avi
> >
> > Likely your problem is one of the 3.
> >
> > -a
> >
> >
>
> ackbar pobega # ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 800x600 -r 10 -i /dev/video0
> test.avi
> FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et
> al.
>   configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-static --enable-shared --cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --disable-altivec --disable-debug --disable-audio-oss --disable-v4l --disable-v4l2 --disable-dv1394 --disable-network --disable-opts --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg --enable-x11grab --enable-libogg --enable-gpl --enable-pp --disable-strip
>   libavutil version: 49.4.0
>   libavcodec version: 51.40.4
>   libavformat version: 51.12.1
>   built on Jul  2 2008 19:42:30, gcc: 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)
> Unknown input or output format: video4linux2
>
> Apparently ffmpeg can't use v4l2 either...Perhaps there is a package
> I've failed to emerge?

Note the --disable-v4l in your configuration.

Also apparently I am running a different version of ffmpeg than you are
so maybe the version you are running does not support V4L.

I assume 1 and 2 checked look fine?

Ekiga uses pwlib.  Did you enable the v4l[2] USE flag for pwlib?

-a

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