Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] uvcview videograbber with preview available for testing

[Luc S. <lu...@sa...>]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:13:41PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> You can already use your webcam with uvcview or tvtime (if you apply following 
> patch to tvtime: 
> http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/linux-uvc/patches/tvtime/tvtime-1.0.2-videoinput.patch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0).
> 
> IM support will come (hopefully) soon. It's "just" a matter of implementing 
> proper v4l2 and MJPEG support in Kopete and Gnomemeeting. Is there someone 
> here who could fix one (or both :-)) of those applications ?

Last week, i've made a patch for gnomemeeting, to add a new format to support
the pwc driver, i can add the mjpeg format. I hope that gnomemeeting is link
to the jpeg library or something like that. I've try to modify the driver,
(and a little mplayer) to support uvc but it crash my kernel seems to be the
bug related with ati chipset. I've not retested with a more recent kernel.

> > Finally what can I do or wil be able to do  with my webcam ?
> 
> You will be able to use your webcam with all Linux video applications. There 
> is no video multimedia framework widely used in Linux applications today, so 
> all applications must implement MJPEG support. Maybe KDE4 will fill a big 

Note that one another webcam is using mjpeg, It's the motion eye (meye) on
some old sony laptop. But it's a v4l1 only app.

> hole. But don't worry, Kopete will support your webcam before KDE4. Is there 
> someone here already involved with the KDE multimedia development team ? It 
> sounds like the right time to raise the video acquisition matter with them.

I've some problem with kopete to at least support my webcam, but i've not
looked the code. Kopete and gnomemeeting is c++ code.

Luc