[Wine] Fwd: Re: Any progress on bug 16147?

[Robert Benjamin]

On 10/5/2010 7:16 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
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> On 10/4/2010 5:31 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>> I got a similar message with vidcap32. (My guess is that Wine is
>> missing support for VfW capturing, but not many apps seem to use
>> it...)
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>> All the fixme's from AMCAP likely indicate where functionality is
>> missing... Whether that affects your specific app is hard to say...
>> (Lots of people are significantly better at reading Wine logs than
>> me...) (It might also be possible that installing a Windows DLL might
>> fix it, but finding the right one might need some guessing / good
>> knowledge of how DirectShow is put toghether)
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>> (But getting Amcap to work might be easier (at least testing it should
>> be) and it might fix several other apps...)
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>> (Amcap also crashes for me, but thanks to an Ubuntu "fix" my webcam
>> only works in xawtv under Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 and newer), and it
>> crashes (Linux) Skype, so it is not suitable for testing Wine webcam
>> support...)
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>> This might be relevant: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11666
>> (Closed, which seem quite stupid for an easy to test and readily
>> available DirectShow SDK demo with source available...) (If Amcap
>> doesn't work other DirectShow apps are unlikely to work) (If you are
>> willing to test the app accationally, you might get it reopened..)
>> (Not sure what the relevant processes are)
>>
>> Gert
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>>    Thanks Gert. I'll be willing to test the apps. I have icuii and 
>> iSpQ and both fail to activate the camera. Tell me what procedures to 
>> follow to test the apps and I'll do it. Please remember I'm a Newbie. 
>> You may want to get a more experienced user to do this. But I'm 
>> interested and will try things you suggest. Thanks. My native Skype 
>> works well with the camera in Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora fc13 by the 
>> way.                         Bob
>      Read the comments on the bug  
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11666 and guessing that there 
> is an easy way to test my apps with AMCAP. If true, I need 
> instructions as this is new to me. Thanks.                    Bob
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