On 14/06/10 18:58, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained as part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here:
Thanks. However, that's not an overly friendly site for non-project developers - don't see any current tarballs, for poor, overworked systems administrators to d/l and build. Do you know what I might need to be able to run the motion daemon? All I've seen are vcs/mercurial, or git or whatever repositories, and I do *not* see "version x.y.z stable", or "current release". I know my manager's willing to let me look at smaller stuff, but not to spend days on building and debugging (whether or not I'd like to, I've got other stuff to do).
AFAIK it's rolling development, so just grab the latest snapshot. At present the v4l-dvb tree is largely maintained by Douglas Schilling Landgraf and the gspca tree by Hans de Goede, both of Red Hat.
I have absolutely no intention of taking the latest snapshot. Did you just skim over the last sentence I wrote, above? I don't need anything LATEST AND GREATEST, I just want something ->STABLE<- that will run the bloody old Labtech (Labtek?) cameras, and *not* spit out pointless error messages.
By the way, what is "rolling development"? Does this mean that there are *no* releases, or version numbers? If so, how can I tell what was the last stable version, and what is where they started adding features for the next release?
The main v4l-dvb tree is here - just grab the latest tarball and build it. Here if you don't see it:
When you say "latest", do you mean the last stable version, or what somebody checked in last night (or just before lunch today)?
Development work on the gspca branch appears to happen here:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/gspca/
before being merged into the main v4l-dvb tree.
Elrepo.org has a version built for el5 that supports many gspca based devices:
Don't need new versions, our video cams are years old, and inexpensive. We want stable. However, do you have a clue as to what the el repo package was built from? I just checked a CentOS mirror, and couldn't find either video4linux, or v4l*.
Isn't it obvious from the package names?
For example, kmod-video4linux-0.0-7.20100410.el5.elrepo is build from the v4l-dvb source code snaphot dated 2010-04-10.
So I just need that, and *not* the apps? I mean, gspca is a video driver that motion can use.
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