Bug#311720: gnomemeeting crashes with a segmentation fault when using v4l2 (default setting)

[Kilian Krause]

Hi Jason,

>  This error apparently was caused by the use of v4l2 which have been
>  told is an experimental and unstable package. What I don't understand is
>  why this was chosen by default. After uninstalling libpt-plugins-v4l2
>  the segmentation faults stopped and I was able to successfully
>  setup gnomemeeting with v4l. The video is perfect just as it was in
>  camstream. Shouldn't the user at least be warned that v4l2 is unstable,
>  and why isn't v4l used as the default? Doesn't it work with most
>  webcams?

yes, the v4l2 problem was known for quite some time and actually we had
considered to do another upload right the moment when SARGE was
released. Thus the v4l2 default happend on accident rather than on
purpose. The gnomemeeting 1.2.1-2 holds the fix already and we hope to
get it into ETCH as soon as the g++ transition permits.

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian
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