From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgPAZ-0004wz-UD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:36 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 10EDAE094F; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46C9BE0851; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com (mail-px0-f190.google.com [209.85.216.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE3EE0851 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so278296pxi.2 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eOCKBtJ20DPd0kzY+qI54RVtEmgm3IXsDwinVdn9Ii8=; b=vQqVXWSEais0p0wmCmTnEy4RfNfXyfmJp9UvXWVu4yNB4RVwj/sXJ+rGaA/ff7j5rV ujj6anZYJVLGnyCflPE6X9KvJveDW9s9xxHOUeloCSQnLB3I+2J/OGAHyUp9LqLGkSAe oEQ7XXQtuxbSmE6RMNdCdTeCvPt5+wLH6hP2I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=msZBIgTM/NI1siU7N9kHQ6sl+/E2a/7Ge/gGzJIfs1qag1NEKSwlcLA0wHg9bkIbqY CHB762VvjYRomnAf35mSfR7OnXt8v0i15SoNVKOmQDuZlbDvJ+v/j7I8uRC1SI0fYlso CgnvqQGp2+b+j7z0RkTRXhZTSUzn1tLx1c508= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.49.12 with SMTP id b12mr3586645rvk.64.1251304105694; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A956048.9050005@gmail.com> References: <58965d8a0908260822q31120040h8b12292df42a2fee@mail.gmail.com> <4A956048.9050005@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:25 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ab555367faf073d1 Message-ID: <58965d8a0908260928q3a393e8dkebaf65faed7c6287@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 37462eab-84ba-4376-9830-eea34056c7f1 X-Archives-Hash: fe4bac2331db0d29ca4ce7256bf51046 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)