Re: [Coriander-devel] Re (2): v4l2loopback for coriander

[Gordon S. <go...@gy...>]

Dear Peter E.

I do not claim any expertise i have only just started using coriander
and vloopback. But what i have i will share. 

I suggest you get vloopback working its fine on Linux 2.6.38
pre-releases. Download the using subversion

svn co http://www.lavrsen.dk/svn/vloopback/trunk/ vloopback

then compile and install

if you are using One camera you will need two pipes so

modprobe vloopback pipes=2

run coriander set up the camera and start the v4l service using the
default device (/dev/video0)

then run what ever program using the next device ie /dev/video1

should work fine

all the best

gordon



On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 12:30 -0700, pe...@ea... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please excuse this interjection.  Your discussion has piqued 
> my interest.
> 
> About 3 years ago I purchased a Uibrain Fire-i camera and 
> connected it to my  Debian system; at that time Debian Sarge; 
> currently Debian Squeeze with linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.
> vloopback is installed.
> 
> I've never observed any problem with Coriander.  Disappointingly, 
> the camera has never worked for Skype or any other VoIP.
> 
> On May 29 Gordon Sinclair wrote:
> > I have invested in a couple of very nice firewire cams which give me 30
> > fps. I need to get them to work through coriander to my program using
> > the v4l interface. That's when it all went wrong because the V4L1 API
> > was removed in one of the Linux 2.6.38 pre-releases. The
> > <linux/videodev.h> header doesn't exist any more and has been superseded
> > by <linux/videodev2.h>. Thus I cannot build vloopback on my system with
> > the kernel version 2.6.38-15-generic-pae
> 
> This suggests that the problem here may not be my incompetence.  Does every 
> VoIP in Linux require vloopback?  Should vloopback work in this system?
> 
> Any tips welcome, thanks,           ... Peter E.
> 
>