webcam with emesene 1.5

pichulines · 2009-08-24 21:22:03

emesene 1.5 have been launched recently with experimental suppor for webcam...

I don't have cam but I have tried to receive a cam in a conversation with a offical MSN peer.... but with no success.

Does anybody know how to configure it to receive video? I have been searching in the emesene forums and I have only found that it's necessary to install the libmimic library. I have installed it from AUR repo but it's doesn't work. These are the strange messages it writes out to console

Got ReflData, connect to reflector?

** Webcam canceled?

any idea? thanks in advance.

pressh · 2009-08-24 21:41:22

do you mean you installed it from [community] ?

There is a forked libmimic part of the emesene 1.5 package, which use is hardcoded. Emesene is not compatible with upstream libmimic. I don't have a webcam and haven't tried receiving a webcam either though.

tehsis · 2009-08-25 12:05:29

I've to install gstreamer0.10-python from extra to get it... after that, everythings goes fine

forkboy · 2009-08-25 14:24:26

This is not very helpful but webcam works fine with amsn...

pichulines · 2009-08-25 18:11:48

thanks all of you for your help.

to pressh: yes, I installed libmimic from community, but as you said it's not valid.

to tehsis: I have installed gstreamer0.10-python and now it seems to show the webcam configuration tab in preferences. These are good news.

to forkboy: aMSN is a great app, but ugly (Tcl/Tk kit is getting better, but still no so polished as GTk). Anyway, some time ago I tried it with my cam working but the sound was out of sync an the video was stopping all the time. I will try it again to see the latest improvements.

pressh · 2009-08-26 20:05:56

pichulines wrote:

to tehsis: I have installed gstreamer0.10-python and now it seems to show the webcam configuration tab in preferences. These are good news.

I'll add it to optdepends, poke me if I forget to do it in the next week or so.

dobedo · 2009-09-01 09:59:08

Hi,

I just played a bit with my webcam and emesene trying to have it recognized.
After having installed gstreamer0.10-python, I still got this error message when starting emesene: "Could not create gst element factory for v4l2src".

It has been solved (and my webcam recognized, then) after installing gstreamer0.10-good-plugins.

[Hardware; Dell Inspiron 1520 with Laptop Integrated Webcam - driver uvcvideo]

Cheers...

kokoko3k · 2010-01-08 15:35:28

i think arch developers should add gstreamer*-good-plugins as gstreamer*-python-* dependancy if not both as emesene dependancy itself.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-08-24 21:22:03

webcam with emesene 1.5

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Re: webcam with emesene 1.5

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