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From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:18:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A956048.9050005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908260822q31120040h8b12292df42a2fee@mail.gmail.com>

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?






  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26 15:22 [gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video Paul Hartman
2009-08-26 16:18 ` 7v5w7go9ub0o [this message]
2009-08-26 16:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman

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