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ybotspawn

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

skype backend question

Ok, so xine apparently works as a nice backend for my kde based arch install.  Everything works, minus the skype video window.  People can see me but I can't see them.  I'm looking around and trying to find out where skype specifies which video backend it's using, because it's apprently not being propagated by kde... Anyone have an idea where I should look for this?

Thanks in advance

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ybotspawn

Member

From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

Re: skype backend question

bump, still can't view other inbound video from other peoples webcams. It used to work and now doesn't.. any advice?

EDIT:

It's worth mentioning this is what i've gotten from running vlc against videos and the webcam

VLC media player 1.0.3 Goldeneye
[0x17bc178] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
(22805) KIconTheme::KIconTheme: Icon theme  "Oxygen"  not found.
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::setClipRegion: Painter not active
QPainter::setClipping: Painter not active, state will be reset by begin
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::setClipRegion: Painter not active
QPainter::setClipping: Painter not active, state will be reset by begin
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 132.19 failed with error code 8:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  132 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  101
  Current serial number in output stream:  102
[user@computer ~]$  vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0
> ^C
[user@computer ~]$ vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0
> ^C
[user@computer ~]$ vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0"
VLC media player 1.0.3 Goldeneye
[0x1118178] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x138a888] v4l demux error: cannot get channel infos (Invalid argument)
[0x138aa38] main access error: no access module matched "v4l"
[0x13b81d8] main input error: open of `v4l://' failed: no access module matched "v4l"

I'm not quite sure what Badmatch means?

Last edited by ybotspawn (2009-11-26 16:51:26)

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