On Sunday 25 March 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 16:59 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
I have managed to get my webcam - a Logitech model - working using the gspca drivers from http://mxhaard.free.fr/ . However, everytime there is a new kernel available I have to recompile it. Is it available on a repo like Livna have done with the nVidia drivers and kmod-nvidia.
I like leaving it as it is, so I can recompile (which takes less than a minute) to have it immediately available.
Secondly, even though I can view the output of the webcam in the configuration window in Kopete, I can't get anyone else to see it and I can't view anyone else's that are online.
I finally beat that problem some time ago, but for the life of me, I cannot remember exactly what I did. Have you tried ekiga yet?
I never did get it working. It works with amsn though. Colour was not ideal on the gspcav1 webcam. The Philips one gives much better colour.
I have read that I may need to change some settings in my router for port forwarding. Does anyone know if this is true and if so what ports, bearing in mind that I use MSN on two different computers.
Ahha! Here's some pointers I found in the way back machine by Paulo Cavalcanti promac@gmail.com
I do not think there is anything wrong with the driver for most cameras. Mine (Creative, ntsc), has pretty acceptable colors. But there are many issues involved to stream audio and video.
- Enough bandwidth (minimum 600Kb for download and upload)
- Firewall rules
- NAT forward rules (sometimes, STUN is unavoidable)
- A known protocol
I have used my camera with a home solution, called freemeeting, and I could send and receive audio and video very well.
I've not come across this. Is it OSS?
Anne