[PD] Webcam not working in Gridflow on Ubuntu

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> the v4l2convert trick mentioned above, is a workaround to make 
> applications not using libv4l to still be able to benefit from libv4l's 
> color conversion routines. but really, the application (e.g. GF or Gem) 
> should use libv4l natively. as far as i know, both do so, if they can 
> find libv4l (+headers!) during configure/compile time. it seems however, 
> that your version of Gem has found libv4l while it was built, whereas GF 
> has not. if you compiled GF yourself, try installing libv4l-dev and then 
> re-configure & re-compile GF.

Even when you compile GF with libv4l1 support, it doesn't use it by 
default. The default is still plain v4l1. I think that it's because some 
old cameras' v4l1 extensions don't work in libv4l1 at all, but I don't 
recall for sure.

libv4l1 is going to be the default in the next release of GF.

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