Announcing a new F-10 Feature Proposal: Better Webcam Support

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 22:17 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>
>>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
>>>>>
>>>>> Any reason a shim library is simpler than porting apps to V4L2?
>>>>
>>>> Same question here. There's a good number of applications that are
>>>> either obsoleted by a v4l2 version, or support both versions. Which
>>>> applications were you thinking of supporting with this scheme?
>>>>
>>>> Unless there's tens of open source apps that would need changing, or a
>>>> couple of (useful) proprietary ones that don't support v4l2, the library
>>>> is probably not very useful to have (especially as you probably wouldn't
>>>> be able to port _all_ the v4l1 drivers to v4l2).
>>>>
>>> See my reaction to Bill's question, and yes there are a few usefull
>>> proprietary apps in the mix unfortunately.
>>
>> Do you have a list of those apps? Both the proprietary ones and the Open
>> Source ones. For the latter, it could be more interesting to create a
>> guide for the conversion from V4L1 to V4L2, and see whether Fedora
>> maintainers of those projects can help out with the conversion, or at
>> least submit it upstream for consideration.
>>
>
> No list atm, noteworthy closed source ones are flash (adobe version) and
> skype. Opensource v4l1 viewers I know about are camomara, spcaview. But
> quite a few v4l2 apps also don't work with all v4l2 cams due to not
> supporting all needed colorformats, examples of these are for example xawtv
> and luvcview.
>
> I must say my primary focus at the moment is getting drivers cleaned up and
> merged in the mainline, but the userspace side of things definetely needs
> work too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans

Is there something that Fedora users with few webcams that aren't
recognised under Fedora because of non-existing drivers can do to
help? Is there some way that we can give you feedback about webcams we
have so that they get supported? I know that that is a lame question
but I had to ask it.

Cheers,
Valent.



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