video chat with only one party having a camera
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Pidgin |
New
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Unknown
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
pidgin 2.6 added audio/video chat support. that's incredibly awesome!
however i did not get video chat working if only one party has a camera.
Scenario:
user A has a microphone and a camera
user B has just a microphone
they use jabber and send text messages ever since, and now audio/video chat is available and they want to use it.
case 1: user B starts an audio call to user A. everything works as expected! awesome.
case 2: user A starts an audio call to user B. everything works as expected! awesome.
case 3: user B starts an video call to user A.
actual behavior: following output to debug log and no call at all:
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(15:09:01) mediamanager: gst pipeline error: Cannot identify device '/dev/video0'.
(15:09:01) mediamanager: Debug details: v4l2_calls.c(482): gst_v4l2_open (): /GstPipeline:
system error: No such file or directory
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expected behavior: voice call + video from A to B
case 4: user A starts an video call to user B.
actual behavior: following output to debug log and no call at all:
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(15:11:40) g_log: purple_
(15:11:40) g_log: purple_find_buddy: assertion `account != NULL' failed
(15:11:40) g_log: purple_
(15:11:40) g_log: purple_
(15:11:51) g_log: purple_
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expected behavior: see above
sometime the following is displayed in the chat window:
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media: Error with your webcam.
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 15 14:55:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
I'm getting the case 3 behavior as well. It sometimes hangs pidgin and crashes it as well.