[vlc] Re: No video on Dshow

[Bill Eldridge]

Gildas Bazin wrote:

>On Friday 29 August 2003 18:52, Bill Eldridge wrote:
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>>Running vlc.exe -vvv dshow://vdev="Genius VideoCAM":adev="ESS Maestro" 
>>--volume 3
>>I get device recognition on both audio and video, but an input error 
>>with "can't open video"
>>The device is a USB video cam, computer is laptop with Win2K
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>According to your log, the problem is that your webcam produces an image 
>format that we don't recognize. 
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It's my head, at least my kids recognize it :()

>It isn't that surprising because I don't 
>yet do clever stuff like providing a list of formats our plugin can handle 
>so right now the capture filter only tries its default format and if it 
>doesn't work we bail out.
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>I'll try to improve that today so tonight's daily build has the fix 
>(www.videolan.org/~videolan/build/)
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Thanks. Tell me if there's anything I can change on my end to test it.
(well, I'm not set up to compile the Windows version right now, so I guess
that's kind of useless)

Bill

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>Gildas
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