gspca webcams (video4linux)

[Pete Graner]

Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:27:53PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:40 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:33:02AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> Anyone using applications with these webcams will need to use the
>>>> PRELOAD stuff[4] to make them work again.  So, in addition to libv4l,
>>>> would it be possible to get the gstreamer patches needed to support
>>>> this?
>>> Based on Gregor Jasny's Debian version of libv4l, I've re-worked the
>>> package sources a bit and put them up for anyone to look through.
>>> Hopefully some version of this can get in soon.  :)
>> I've just reviewed this, and it looks good to me, no complaints.
> 
> Cool, great.  I've incorporated[1] some more changes suggested by
> slangasek, and some by the upstream Debian maintainer.  The package
> continues to develop in Debian[2].
> 
> [1] https://edge.launchpad.net/~kees/+archive  (building shortly...)
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488117
> 
>> I think this is ready for upload for review in the NEW queue.
> 
> I'd like to wait over the weekend just to shake out any other changes;
> I'd prefer to be in sync with Debian.
> 
>> What would be the next step after that? MIR? Do you have a list
>> of the applications that would need to be modified to take advantage
>> of it to avoid having to resort to LD_PRELOAD?
> 
> MIR yes, and then we need to find the various patches -- most critically
> those for GStreamer.  I think Pete Graner has those links; I haven't
> gone hunting for them yet.
> 
> -Kees
> 

Links for the upstream patches and status of v4l apps is here:

http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Libv4l_Progress

~pete

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