[Wine] Any progress on bug 16147?

[Gert van den Berg]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 13:25, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote:
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> On 9/27/2010 3:06 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>> If the support is present, and the debugging messages seem to indicate
>> that Wine have some kind of v4l code and it implements whatever method
>> the application is trying to use to access the camera and it
>> implements enough of it for the capturing to work, it might work
>> currently...
>>
>> (A simple app like AMCAP
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd373424.aspx under Wine might
>> be useful to test what actually works...) (Vidcap32 seem to be the VfW
>> version: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120750 )
>>
>> Gert
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>      Thanks Gert. Newbie here so don't understand what you said. Will follow
> any suggestions you have to get the camera to work. Just not sure what I
> should do. Don't want to mess up wine 1.3.3 or Ubuntu 10.04           Bob

That was more on how to test what actually work in Wine currently..

You shouldn't easily be able to mess up Wine as a non-root user to the
degree that this won't be able to fix it:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581
(Apps will need be reinstalled though...)

Gert