Webcam Setup

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Drivers

  • Ideally, your webcam will be supported by the UVC drivers (that are included in recent kernels). You need to build this driver as well as build the generic v4l2 framework support.
  • To test your webcam, you can use the luvcview application (in Portage), although you may have to specify a different format if you get an error:
luvcview -f yuv

Applications

  • In Ekiga, in order to use v4l2 the pwlib / ptlib (ptlib is for recent Ekiga versions) dependency must be built with the v4l2 USE flag on.
  • I did not manage to get full screen working in Ekiga 3.2.5 yet. The key is F11 but the option is greyed out in the menu.
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