From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0908260928q3a393e8dkebaf65faed7c6287@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A956048.9050005@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9ub0o@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)
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2009-08-26 15:22 [gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video Paul Hartman
2009-08-26 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2009-08-26 16:28 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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