Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Problem with gm 0.12.2 and my Philips TouCam Pro on RH7.2

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Great news !

It is weird however that limiting the frame rate of the module make the
YUV420P fail !


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:10:58PM -0800, Matt Hartley wrote:
> Well folks I figured it out.  Gnomemeeting doesn't like it when I set
> fps=30 in modules.conf.  Everything else on the config line (see below)
> seems to be working great.
> 
> Thanks again for your help!
> Matt
> 
> ----- Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> said -----
> I have personally no idea.
> The only thing that I can say is that I'm running successfully
> GnomeMeeting with a Philips Vesta Pro Scan (same driver as you),
> and that Rafael (the FAQ maintainer) is running successfully
> GnomeMeeting with a ToUCam PRO. This webcam is really well supported by
> GnomeMeeting.
> Perhaps others on this mailing list will be able to help you.
> I just hope that it will be possible for you to debug that on your
> system. The thing to look for is not GM, but PWLib. But again, it is
> working fine here.
> Try to load your module without parameters.
> modprobe pwc
> and try to load the binary module only too. Perhaps that forcing
> YUV420P as parameter puzzles the module and/or
> GnomeMeeting. On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:08:00PM -0800, Matt Hartley
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Looks like a wonderful piece of software, if only I could get it to
> > work with my Philips TouCam Pro.  I have Red Hat 7.2 on my Dell
> > Inspiron 8100 laptop.  I tried both the RPMs and I compiled the
> source
> > code on my box to see if that would help, but I am getting the same
> > error message from both.
> >
> > Error while opening video device /dev/video0, channel 0.
> > A test image will be transmitted
> > Your driver doesn't support the YUV420P format.
> >
> > This is driving me crazy.  Xawtv v3.68 (upgraded from RH 7.2's
> xawtv)
> > works fine, as does camstream v0.25 (from the Linux Philips USB
> webcam
> > page).  Gnomemeeting otherwise seems to be working fine, it is
> > detecting both my audio streams (one on laptop one on webcam), and
> it
> > connected over my local network to a Win98 machine running
> netmeeting
> > without problems.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > My modules.conf for my webcam module:
> > options pwc size=cif palette=yuv420p fps=30 fbufs=4 mbufs=4
> > power_save=1 trace=3
> > post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force
> > /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/usb/pwcx.o > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
> :
> >
> > My config file:
> > [VideoSettings]
> > video_size=0
> > video_format=0
> > transmitted_video_quality=5
> > tr_fps=30
> > fps=0
> > received_video_quality=3
> > transmitted_update_blocks=2
> > video_transmission=1
> > video_bandwidth=32
> > vb=0
> >
> > [UserSettings]
> > firstname=Matt
> > surname=
> > mail=
> > comment=
> > location=San Antonio, TX
> > listen_port=1720
> > notfirst=1
> > version=122
> >
> > [GeneralSettings]
> > show_splash=1
> > show_notebook=1
> > show_statusbar=1
> > show_quickbar=1
> > show_docklet=1
> > incoming_call_sound=1
> > enable_auto_answer=0
> > dnd=0
> > enable_popup=1
> > video_preview=1
> >
> > [AdvancedSettings]
> > enable_fast_start=0
> > enable_h245_tunneling=0
> > max_bps=20000
> > gsm_silence_detection=1
> > g711_silence_detection=1
> > jitter_buffer=50
> > gsm_frames=4
> > g711_frames=30
> >
> > [LDAPSettings]
> > ldap=0
> > ldap_server=argo.dyndns.org
> > ldap_port=389
> >
> ldap_servers_list=ils.advalvas.be:ils.netmeetinghq.com:argo.dyndns.org:
> >
> > [GKSettings]
> > gk=0
> > gk_host=
> > gk_id=
> >
> > [EnabledAudio]
> > LPC10=0
> > GSM-06.10=0
> > G.711-uLaw-64k=1
> > G.711-ALaw-64k=1
> > MS-GSM=1
> >
> > [Devices]
> > audio_player=/dev/dsp
> > audio_recorder=/dev/dsp1
> > audio_player_mixer=/dev/mixer
> > audio_recorder_mixer=/dev/mixer
> > video_device=/dev/video0
> > video_channel=0
> >
> > [Placement]
> > Dock=Toolbar\\3,0,0,28\\Menubar\\0,0,0,0
> >
> >
> >
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