-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Hello, > > Given the well-known unstability history of ffmpeg, may I suggest you > look into libvidcap or mediastreamer2 (from LinPhone) ? Both are > cross-platform, small and mostly autocontained (save for optional > features) > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/libvidcap/ > > http://www.linphone.org/ > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/linphone.git/tree/linphone/mediastreamer2 > > There is GStreamer, too, but it's so difficult to build it on Windows, > I suggest not touching it with a 10-foot pole. Not to speak of the > problems when your Qt is not built with the glib event loop. > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Alex Fiestas<a...@eyeos.org> wrote: >> Hi everybody >> I'm Alex Fiestas (afiestas), I'm developing together with Aleix Pol >> (apol) a cheese/photobooth like application for KDE. As some of you may >> know, we're using avdevice (part of libkopete) to capture video data. It >> was perfect to do the first steps of the project, get data, save it etc, >> and right now, we can do it quite well (http://gitorious...). >> The avdevice, is a great library, which solve to us a lot of problems, >> like format conversion, format negotiating, etc... but it lacks some >> important things, like for example it's not thread_safe. >> Also, we lack a standard "webcamWidget" which should deal with the >> painting stuff, right now kopete is implementing his own, we do the >> same, and I remember have seen 2 or 3 more around the web/mailist. >> >> Ok so, this email is to aim everybody involved with the avdevice/video to >> join forces and fix the current situation, maybe starting to write a >> TODO. >> >> My points at the moment are (I'm starting to look deep at it): >> 1-Thread-safe. >> 2-Create a standard webcamWidget (phonon here?). >> 3-Implement some more v4l2 stuff in videoDevice. >> >> -- >> Alex Fiestas >> _______________________________________________ >> kopete-devel mailing list >> kopete-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel >> +1 to libvidcap. It's in Fedora, so I'd venture say there aren't any patent issues. I'm unaware of mediastreamer2's status, it's in neither Fedora nor RPMFusion searches here. ffmpeg has patent issues yet and as such cannot be enabled in Fedora an dvideo chat would be nice to have in vanilla Fedora. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp7IcoACgkQiPi+MRHG3qStnwCgjqjx0xuqXg0WttpJ6iCouELi 56gAoMEHUok7XXl5bGQb+bjnXu9F93Bc =QTd/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
