tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61064510686731987032011-04-21T14:13:46.443-07:00razorxpressnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106451068673198703.post-64112883552970888262008-11-23T10:20:00.000-08:002008-11-23T10:55:54.361-08:00I wanted a complete transition from windows to ubuntu. One thing that was bothering me was audio-video chat on yahoo instant messenger via Linux. I had tried the closest to providing video chat e.g kopete, gyachi. I did not succeed on any of my previous distro. I had seen on many forums that gyachi actually works. So after installing Ubuntu Ibex (8.10) I first installed gspca-source (synaptic). Then i started a program called gstreamer-properties which helped me test the webcam as video input. I found it working as great as my previous distro. At gyachi <a href=http://gyachi.sourceforge.net>official site</a> i could only download the hardy package or the source code. I downloaded the source code(i could configure many options). While i tried to install, it asked for a dependency package. I was very suspicious with the dependency package ( i read somewhere that it affects other packages), but just then i found this site. <a href="http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=4830987">http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=4830987</a>. From this site i downloaded the 32bit version <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eloell/+archive/+files/gyachi_1.1.58-1~intrepid_i386.deb">gyachi</a>. When i installed it the webcam and the video chat actually started to work. I now found out(gstreamer-properties) that previous vesion of gyachi used v4l(video for linux) default as the video driver, but my webcam worked on v4l2(gstreamer-properties). Installing the intrepid version added the option for v4l2. In the new gyachi even the chat room works great.<br /><br /><div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'><br /><script type='text/javascript'><br />digg_url=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;<br /></script><br /><script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'></script><br /></div><br /><p><data:post.body/></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6106451068673198703-6411288355297088826?l=lasthurdle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>razorxpressnoreply@blogger.com0