According to this user: http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-pidgin-video-ftopict492729.html we also need to emerge gst-plugins-farsight and gst-plugins-v4l2 before being able to use voice and video on pidgin. I can confirm that my webcam was detected after installing those packages, but I couldn't test voice and video yet (no one else online). That said, it would have been nice if setting that useflag also pulls such dependencies. Maybe add a v4l2 useflag to pidgin, which should depend on gst-plugins-v4l2 (but only if gstreamer and v4l2 are both set).
gst-plugins-farsight is definitely not needed. It is deprecated and all the useful plugins have been moved to gst-plugins-bad. v4l2 is harder to say, because for the camera to work you either need v4l or v4l2 depending on which driver you are using. Maybe I should add both as deps... Or at least v4l2 (since it is now much more common).. And actually, I heard that with libv4l2, one could use v4l devices too with that plug-in.. So I guess we should add it as a hard RDEP.. or maybe add those to gst-plugins-meta.
There are already v4l and v4l2 useflags. Maybe that dependency (that you are planning to add) should be conditional.
Just poking again this bug... Would be nice to have v4l/v4l2 useflags on pidgin, as it would pull the required gst-plugins-v4l{,2} packages. This will help people to use voice/video in pidgin, without the need to manually emerge this dep.
these should be in gst-plugins-meta I guess
After sync, I noticed this: net-im/psi, with jingle useflag, pulls net-im/psimedia, which is a plugin for voice/video calls. net-im/psimedia ebuild pulls media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l and media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l2, among a few other packages. Thus, I guess maybe both pidgin and psimedia could use the same useflags, or they both could adopt the same solution (of course, if possible).
If I remember correctly in psimedia there is demo program does not start if all plugins are not installed. So I just added both. And IIUC since video in pidgin is also xmpp only I guess jingle USE flag could be useful here too.
It will also be in yahoo in the next release.
Daniel and other maintainers. Could you (we?) add v4l/v4l2 USE flags to gst-plugins-meta (to depend on media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l{,2}), please? Olivier, and since there is no clear way to separate voice from video in pidgin I guess we need new USE flag: vv sounds too terse and voicevideo is too long, but it's still possbile to use any. What's your preference?
There is already a "gstreamer" use flag for that.
I don't have a problem with v4l use flags in gst-plugins-meta. Make sure the keywords are correct. Since I can't currently test this, someone with proper hardware is going to have to test and make a patch (or commit themselves, if they're a developer)
Created attachment 213515 [details, diff] gst-plugins-meta-v4l-v4l2.patch New to ebuilds, HTH Tested on ~amd64 seems to work as expected.
Looking at keywords, I can't apply this until some keywords get added. gst-plugins-v4l needs ~arm and ~sh gst-plugins-v4l2 needs ~arm, ~sh, and ~sparc I'm assuming that fbsd isn't relevant, based on the "L" in V4L. Arch teams: is this feasible?
arm: v4l/v4l2 is masked, what do we need to do here? We don't plan on unmasking them sh: i've masked v4l/v4l2 sparc: v4l2 is masked, what do we need to do here?
ping
Thanks Raúl for ping. USE flags were added. FIXED in gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r4.
