Bug#468085: ekiga: Defaulting to V4L2 instead of V4L

[Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com]

For debian likely yes.  I came in from an Ubuntu background, so both of those are installed on the default system.

Mario Limonciello
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sven Arvidsson [mailto:sa at whiz.se]
Sent: Sat 3/15/2008 5:11 PM
To: Limonciello, Mario; 468085 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#468085: ekiga: Defaulting to V4L2 instead of V4L
 
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:40 -0600, Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com wrote:
> Most modern webcam and capture devices are V4L2 based, but gstreamer
> and Ekiga both default to using V4L instead. The V4L API isn't even
> available in 2.6 kernels 
> beyond 2.6.15, so it makes much more sense to not default to it.

Hi,

Doesn't this mean that the libpt-1.10.10 dependency on the v4l plugins
needs to be changed? 

It's currently set as "libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l |
libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l2", and the last time I made a new desktop
install, I had to install the v4l2 plugins manually to get my webcam
working.

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