[gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[Paul Hartman]

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.

[gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[Paul Hartman]

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)