From: GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org) <bug...@bu...> - 2008-12-06 22:16:46
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If you have any questions why you received this email, please see the text at the end of this email. Replies to this email are NOT read, please see the text at the end of this email. You can add comments to this bug at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563504 GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | Ver: 0.10.x Summary: add libv4l2 support to v4l2 gst plugin - required for most new webcams Product: GStreamer Version: 0.10.x Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: Normal Component: gst-plugins-good AssignedTo: gst...@li... ReportedBy: tet...@gm... QAContact: gst...@li... GNOME version: Unspecified GNOME milestone: Unspecified In kernel 2.6.27 and higher, the drivers for gspca and most uvc webcams (i.e. most USB webcams in existence) require userspace v4l2 clients to do their own video format conversion. The gstreamer v4l2 plugin (all versions up to 0.10.11, and the CVS version too, as far as I can tell) currently does not perform this conversion, hence making the plugin very nearly useless. Fortunately, Fedora has done the hard work of developing a patch for the v4l2 plugin to use the libv4l2 library to do automatic format conversion. See http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gstreamer-plugins-good/devel/gst-plugins-good-0.10.9-libv4l.patch?view=log Works so well that Debian and Ubuntu have borrowed and started using it too: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-good0.10/gst-plugins-good0.10_0.10.11-2/changelog http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-good0.10/gst-plugins-good0.10_0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1/changelog But for reasons unknown, neither Fedora nor Debian nor Ubuntu have bothered to actually submit the patch upstream! So, I suppose it falls to me, a Gentoo user, to do it for them... -- See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=email.html for more info about why you received this email, why you can't respond via email, how to stop receiving emails (or reduce the number you receive), and how to contact someone if you are having problems with the system. You can add comments to this bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563504. |