Paul Hartman wrote: > FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin > 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged > these packages: > > pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled) > gst-plugins-v4l2 > gst-plugins-farsight > gnome-media > > The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties, which let me > define which audio/video devices to use for input and test them. If > you're a gnome user you've probably already got it. Pidgin devs say > they hope to allow configuration from within the app in the future, > but right now it has to be done externally. > > Thanks for posting this!
But......... ugh!; the last one is a killer. Is there any way that I can vim some config somewhere, and avoid installing all of the gnome stuff required by gnome-media?
