Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] DV and gnomemeeting

[Marco Canini <m canini libero it>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 18:03, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le mer 04/06/2003 à 17:25, Marco Canini a écrit :
> > i'm completely new to gnomemeeting.
> > i would like to know if it's possible to use a dv cam connected throgh a
> > firewire port as a video source device in gnomemeeting.
> 
> Yes, but you will have to compile CVS.
> 
> Here is what you have to do to compile recent OpenH323/PWLIB with (or
> without) Firewire:
> 
> 1) Uninstall old openh323, openh323-devel, pwlib, pwlib-devel,
> gnomemeeting packages.
> 
> 2) Get OpenH323 and PWLib from sourceforge cvs :
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/openh323 login
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/openh323 co
> ptlib_unix
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/openh323 co
> openh323
> 
> 3) cd pwlib; ./configure --prefix=/usr/; make optshared; make install
> 
> If you want to compile Firewire support for DC cameras, pass
> --enable-firewiredc as argument to the configure script.
> 
> If you want to compile Firewire support for AVC cameras, pass
> --enable-firewireavc as argument to the configure script.

Ok thanks, just tell me a little one thing: what's DC or AVC camera?
is it the library used to access to 1394 bus or is it a camera model?
> 
> 4) cd openh323; ./configure --prefix=/usr/; make optshared; make install
> 
> 5) rm -rf openh323 pwlib 
> 
> 6) Install GnomeMeeting from CVS (nightly snapshots are available on the main website)
> as usual, it will automatically use Firewire support if it detects it in PWLIB.
> 
> > i've the 0.68 version
> > thanks
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Marco Canini <m canini libero it>