Bug#448834: wengophone: ieee1394/dv1394/firewire camcorder support

[Ludovico Cavedon]

Hi,

Marius Mikucionis wrote:
> Could you please add support for firewire video devices?
> Firewire has very good video support (better than most USB webcams) in Linux.

Wengophone accesses webcams via the video4linux API.
You can use the dc1394_vloopback application from the libdc1394 library:
http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/libdc1394/

As far I could understand, it should make you firewire video stream
accessible via v4l.

> One way of doing it is to use libpt-plugins-avc library.

I do not like the idea of adding a new dependency to wengophone. There
is already the video4linux API which is made for accessing webcams (and
not only, of course).
I think that firewire webcams should be made accessible via the
video4linux API, not asking every application to support both v4l
webcams *and* firewire webcams (and bluetooth webcams, and ....)

However, if you really want, I can forward this request upstream...

Regards,
Ludovico