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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin |
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>> 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged |
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>> these packages: |
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>> pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled) |
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>> gst-plugins-v4l2 |
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>> gst-plugins-farsight |
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>> gnome-media |
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>> The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties, which let me |
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>> define which audio/video devices to use for input and test them. If |
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>> you're a gnome user you've probably already got it. Pidgin devs say |
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>> they hope to allow configuration from within the app in the future, |
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>> but right now it has to be done externally. |
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> Thanks for posting this! |
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> |
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> But......... ugh!; the last one is a killer. Is there any way that I can |
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> vim some config somewhere, and avoid installing all of the gnome stuff |
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> required by gnome-media? |
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gnome-media is optional. PIdgin will let gstreamer try to autodetect |
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the appropriate device to use. So try it and see what happens. :) In |
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my case that didn't work right away, so I emerged the 10 packages |
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needed for gnome-settings. |
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Also the video only works if the other person is using the Gmail video |
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chat plugin for windows (or pidgin on linux, I suppose... didn't try |
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it that way yet) |
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