On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
gnome-media is optional. PIdgin will let gstreamer try to autodetect the appropriate device to use. So try it and see what happens. :) In my case that didn't work right away, so I emerged the 10 packages needed for gnome-settings. Also the video only works if the other person is using the Gmail video chat plugin for windows (or pidgin on linux, I suppose... didn't try it that way yet)
