Bug#265966: Bug#265885: ohphone: works with oss libpt plugins

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

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 I have cloned your bug report to split problems.
 For now on, video stuff go to #265966

 Thanks

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:06:34PM +0100, Alistair K Phipps wrote:
> OK I think I've found the problem with video.
>=20
> If I specify --videodevice "Philips 680 webcam", which is what is
> returned by PVideoInputDevice::GetDriversDeviceNames(drivers[i]), then
> ohphone video works.
>=20
> Lines 2283-2289 of main.cxx go to the trouble of finding the available
> devices, but then this information is not used.  Line 2291 does
> CreateDeviceByName( videoDevice ), where videoDevice is either
> specified on the command line, or takes a default value (/dev/video0).
> However, I'm guessing that CreateDeviceByName( "/dev/video0" ) no longer
> works with libpt-1.6.6 - an actual device name has to be specified,
> matching one returned by GetDeviceDriverNames.  Gnomemeeting makes the
> user select a device from a list returned by GetDeviceDriverNames, and
> then uses this value when doing CreateDeviceByName, so it works.
>=20
> ohphone needs to modify its default videoDevice selection to be a bit
> smarter than just using /dev/video0 - it should probably pick the
> first V4L device returned by GetDeviceDriverNames.
>=20
> Note this isn't the same as the ALSA sound problem - that is certainly
> caused by ohphone not being "ALSA-aware" and the old libpt not
> supporting ALSA at all.
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Alistair
>=20
>=20
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo@debian.org

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