[etoys-dev] Camera in e-toys/scratch

[karl ramberg]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Great!
> Anybody knows who package e-toys in Fedora?
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:10 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Added to Etoys now.
>> Camera is not working on Windows 7
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Derek O'Connell <doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Gonzalo, Bert,
>> >> >
>> >> > I took a quick look at Scratch on XO-1.5 (Build: 5 customised, Sugar:
>> >> > 0.93.4, Fw: Q3B19) and saw the effect mentioned in ticket/11297. At
>> >> > first
>> >> > guess this looks like a conversion problem in libv4l2 (new version?),
>> >> > confirmed by copying my desktop versions of libv4l2.so.0 and
>> >> > libv4lconvert.so.0 to the XO and then the camera image was perfect
>> >> > (although
>> >> > frame-rate was a little on the slow side). So this problem possibly
>> >> > needs
>> >> > bouncing elsewhere.
>> >> >
>> >> > Re supporting etoys/other-platforms, the c-code [1], image code [2]
>> >> > and
>> >> > example morph [3] was released ~20 months ago so I have no idea why
>> >> > it
>> >> > was
>> >> > not adopted. I do know it worked in etoys earlier this year since I
>> >> > loaded
>> >> > it all up to do a 3D side-by-side demo using two webcams.
>> >>
>> >> I think we can add it.
>> >>
>> >> Karl
>> >>
>> >
>> >  Hi Karl,
>> > What should be the steps to move it forward?
>> >
>> > Gonzalo
>> >
>
>

There are some subtle bugs in the WebCamMorph code that give hard crash.
I'm trying to pin it down but have not found the right place yet.
Good new is that the camera works in Windows though only in a basic way.

I'll try to weed out the bugs during the week

Karl