Comment 51 for bug 290506
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| Francisco Borges (francisco-borges) wrote Re: [Bug 290506] Re: cheese doesn't show v4l2 video output and disables output on gstreamer-based apps ran afterwards | #51 |
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Filippo Argiolas <email address hidden>wrote:
I can reproduce the very same bug with gstreamer alone, so it's clearly not
> a cheese issue.
Glad you mentioned this. I can call gstreamer (through gst-launch with
resolution of 480x640), and I can get the same video I used to on 8.04.
You seem to know the code, so it may be clear to you. But there are quite a
few people posting here, reporting problems only on Cheese, and that have an
otherwise perfectly working gstreamer. To those in this group it is not
"clear" that this is not a cheese issue.
I don't know at which level of the software stack the problem is, but
looking at it from a user perspective. It points to Cheese. Do you need to
get so upset when somebody comes to a bug report and says:
""
is very much Cheese related in the sense that the camera works with kopete,
skype, and gstreamer (before starting Cheese) but not with Cheese.
""
Note the "in the sense of".
Others reported the bug with gstreamer alone too.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it is a different issue?
I have to tell you that I have yet to succeed locking my camera using
gstreamer. As I mentioned above, there seems to be quite a number of people
in this list able to use gstreamer and who are unable to use cheese. It
would be nice if you would reckon that these reports were also made.
I don't know how Kopete works but I cannot see anyone here who said the
> issue doesn't stand with it.
Well, I guess I just did that. So please start counting me on that one.
Video still works with Kopete on 8.10.
> Regarding skype, please stop enumerating it.. it's closed source, how could
> be useful to know it works? Does it use v4l1 api? does it use libv4l? what
> resolution does it set?
It was meant to be useful in the sense that it adds to the kopete
information corroborating that my camera is still functional. Nothing more
than that.
[...]
FWIW, considering your email address, I have to assume you are a Gnome dev,
and thus Cheese developer. If you are, I would like to thank you for working
on Cheese. It is a lovely application, and I was delighted when I found it.
Kind regards,
--
Francisco