The behavior of V4l2src in gstreamer is not the same in hardy and intrepid.
Here after some test on Hardy and intrepid with gst-launch and v4ls2src. Fore each command we havae the detail of the command line and the result
The webcam used is a Philips SPC 1030NC
The result shows that when ffmpegcolorspace is used no display is available in Intrepid.
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### Philips SPC 1030NC tests on HARDY
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### test : no filter without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! xvimagesink
### test : no filter with ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
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### Philips SPC 1030NC tests on INTREPID
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### test : no filter without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! xvimagesink
### test : no filter with ffmpegcolorspace
### result : no display
### no error message
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : no display
### no error message
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
The behavior of V4l2src in gstreamer is not the same in hardy and intrepid.
Here after some test on Hardy and intrepid with gst-launch and v4ls2src. Fore each command we havae the detail of the command line and the result
The webcam used is a Philips SPC 1030NC
The result shows that when ffmpegcolorspace is used no display is available in Intrepid.
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### Philips SPC 1030NC tests on HARDY
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### test : no filter without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! xvimagesink
### test : no filter with ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
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### Philips SPC 1030NC tests on INTREPID
#######
### test : no filter without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! xvimagesink
### test : no filter with ffmpegcolorspace
### result : no display
### no error message
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : display ok
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! xvimagesink
### test : filter video/x-raw-yuv without ffmpegcolorspace
### result : no display
### no error message
#gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src name=source device =/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw-yuv , width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink