Sorry for the late reply. 2007/11/1, Ludovico Cavedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
That's interesting, I was not aware of that. I have tried and had no luck with dc1394_vloopback (it says no cameras found). I think this probably would work for firewire *webcams* with dv1394 protocol as such, but the user should not be concerned with digging examples of some library usage. Anyway, I have a camcorder which is accessible through /dev/raw1394 or /dev/video1394/0 via something called 1394AVC protocol. Moreover, it seems that a general consensus on the internet is that camcorders do not support dv1394, so this library does not solve the problem for camcorders. > > > 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 am not insisting on this particular solution. My point was that the (mature) code is already available and is successfully used (see ekiga). > 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 ....) The idea is nice, but I could not find a loopback solution for 1394AVC to V4L, and as it is now, it would not be user-friendly enough. > However, if you really want, I can forward this request upstream... Yes, please. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
