Re: web-camera

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I built ffplay4 from  the current pkgsrc tree. It compiled completely, but
I get an error when I execute the command

ffplay4 /dev/video0


On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:58 AM nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:27:06AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 22:06, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 04:12:32PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > > I dont have a camera in my screen (like a laptop would). I have a LogiTech
> > > > web-cam hooked to my flat-screen, and plugged into a USB port.
> > > > Would this make a difference?
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:07:26AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > > > > I installed Cheese. It does not work on my system.
> > > > > > Any other options for web-cameras?
> > > > >
> > > > > I use ffplay (playing)/ffmpeg (recording).
> > >
> > > No, either way ffplay4 /dev/video0
> >
> > Pray forgive my ignorance, but where do you get ffplay4 from? it
> > certainly is not part of multimedia/ffmpeg4, there is even
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --disable-ffplay
> > in the Makefile (but even if you take it out or replace it with
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-ffplay it doesn't get built - at
> > least for me on -current pkgsrc tree.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > ----
>
> It's a separate package, multimedia/ffplay4