bdogg64, you can post your source etc. to Garage, just break your archive into pieces. I noticed that the Peekaboo guys used rar and the VMWare Appliance guys used 7zip to do this.

I just want v4l2 support enabled in maemo vlc...

I tried and failed to build the Peekaboo version of VLC; it failed with a bunch of "undefined reference to 'hal_..." errors in libvlc.c ...

If you don't need GUI, you could try this one:

https://www.ist-anemone.eu/index.php...ideo_streaming

Jari, did you succeed on transcoding the video from the webam ?

I'm currently in the testing of my own deb packages and I could not get it working without a patch that I sent on the vlc-devel mailing list.

I saw that your patches have been merged in the vlc-git.
I sent another corrective patch to enable these optimisations for xvideo output because it works only with x11.

And good news for vlc users on mameo :

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/vide...CA244780A507AB


Lokidor

That one's useless to me; it looks like that one has no transcoding capabilities. It says that they disabled streaming at compile time(!) I have no idea why a group focussed on streaming would compile a version of VLC with no streaming / transcode capabilities.

See, VLC isn't a very good media player on the tablet. Unlike maemo mplayer, it has very few playback optimizations. If you take away its streaming abilities, what is it good for?

It seems that some filters are broken or disabled in vlc-git, the code still needs some works and unfortunately only vlc-git can deal with this webcam.

I'm working on producing deb packages with this capablity enabled and with a working mozilla plugin.

Ok, if someone with some mad compiling skillz wants to take a run at this in the future, what I need is a v0.9x (development) version of VLC with v4l2 and sout / transcoding enabled.

If, with your VLC, the following command streams video from the tablet on port 7070, then you're my hero.

I don't even need a .deb, just a tarball will do.

You can try my packages here :

http://manupap1.free.fr/maemo/chinook/

You will need some libs from the extra repository.

The transcoding of the camera should work with the minimum installation (libvlc0 and vlc-nox).

I built the qt4 gui in a separate package, you can try it, it's pretty usable excepted the windows settings.

The mozilla plugin should work under microb, but it will crash vlc if the windows dimensions defined in the html page are too high (640x480), 320x240 is better.

I tested the installation on my n810 with the installation manager in blue pill mode, I hope it works on n800 too.

lokidor: you're the Maemo VLC GSoC guy! Good luck, God speed, and make sure you look at what the maemo mplayer team have done to optimize things! Serge is the guru to PM about that.

I've downloaded your packages; I'll try them soon...

Sorry but I'm not the GSoC 2008 student.
I finished studies for 5 years already, I'm just an impatient...
You can follow the project here, according to the planning he will start by the 16 of june :
http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2008/Ne...face_for_Maemo

Hi lokidor,

nice to hear that there are people working on better VLC for Maemo! I tried your version and here's some observations:

While installing vlc-nox, I got complaints about missing libogg0 although I certainly installed it from the Maemo Extras. Here's what dpkg said:

vlc-nox depends on libogg0 (>= 1:1.1.3); however: Version of libogg0 on system is 1.1.3-2

"dpkg -i --force-depends" helped me through this problem.

What I need is video streaming input+playback (yes cole, there's someone who needs VLC for this so I tried only vlc-nox. However, it said "fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)". So I guess vlc-nox really doesn't have any X? What I would propose instead is to have packages:

• vlc-cli: command line version which uses X for playback
• vlc-qt: QT
• vlc-wx: WxWidgets
• ...

So the first one would match the ANEMONE version and the rest would add some GUI stuff. The rationale for this is that Maemo has X anyway (unless you get rid of it somehow but on the other hand QT/wx/... have some requirements for space etc. so you might want to avoid installing them. What I would propose also is that the WxWidgets version wouldn'd depend on QT version, if possible.

- Jari