On Sunday 25 March 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 16:59 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote: > > I have managed to get my webcam - a Logitech model - working using the > > gspca drivers from http://mxhaard.free.fr/ . However, everytime there is > > a new kernel available I have to recompile it. Is it available on a repo > > like Livna have done with the nVidia drivers and kmod-nvidia. > > I like leaving it as it is, so I can recompile (which takes less than a > minute) to have it immediately available. > > > Secondly, even though I can view the output of the webcam in the > > configuration window in Kopete, I can't get anyone else to see it and I > > can't view anyone else's that are online. > > I finally beat that problem some time ago, but for the life of me, I > cannot remember exactly what I did. Have you tried ekiga yet? > I never did get it working. It works with amsn though. Colour was not ideal on the gspcav1 webcam. The Philips one gives much better colour. > > I have read that I may need to change some settings in my router for port > > forwarding. Does anyone know if this is true and if so what ports, > > bearing in mind that I use MSN on two different computers. > > Ahha! Here's some pointers I found in the way back machine by Paulo > Cavalcanti <promac@xxxxxxxxx> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I do not think there is anything wrong with the driver for > most cameras. Mine (Creative, ntsc), has pretty acceptable colors. > But there are many issues involved to stream audio and video. > > 1) Enough bandwidth (minimum 600Kb for download and upload) > 2) Firewall rules > 3) NAT forward rules (sometimes, STUN is unavoidable) > 4) A known protocol > > I have used my camera with a home solution, called freemeeting, > and I could send and receive audio and video very well. I've not come across this. Is it OSS? Anne
