ok I got the modules to load by reloading the kernel image
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-`uname -r`
sudo depmod -a
now Yves solution works with pdp_v4l.

although modprobe v4l2loopback seems to work, Iohannes's incantation to launch the pipeline returns: WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "v4l2loopback"

also /dev/video3 becomes available when I modprobe v4l2loopback but nothing can seem to access it --- invalid argument errors.

Assuming I can configure webcamstudio to autostart with the configuration I need tho, I should be all set at this point.

Thanks for help!

-John

On 08/30/2010 11:59 PM, John Harrison wrote:
bleh I'm failing to get either v4l2loopback or webcamstudio modules to actually load.

I'm running ubuntu Lucid 10.04 with 2.6.32-24-generic kernel

v4l2loopback svn builds and installs ok

however, modprobe v4l2loopback returns in dmesg:

[   46.328926] v4l2loopback: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device
[   46.328929] v4l2loopback: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
[   46.328996] v4l2loopback: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc
[   46.328998] v4l2loopback: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
[   46.329091] v4l2loopback: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device
[   46.329093] v4l2loopback: Unknown symbol video_register_device
[   46.329178] v4l2loopback: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release
[   46.329179] v4l2loopback: Unknown symbol video_device_release

similarly, modprobe webcamstudio returns in dmesg:

[   39.281212] webcamstudio: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
[   39.281215] webcamstudio: Unknown symbol video_devdata
[   39.281309] webcamstudio: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device
[   39.281311] webcamstudio: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
[   39.281376] webcamstudio: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc
[   39.281377] webcamstudio: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
[   39.281446] webcamstudio: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device
[   39.281448] webcamstudio: Unknown symbol video_register_device
[   39.281551] webcamstudio: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release
[   39.281553] webcamstudio: Unknown symbol video_device_release
a reboot doesn't help.

-John

On 08/30/2010 11:40 AM, ydegoyon@gmail.com wrote:
ola,

pdp_capture was working once with an old version of ImageMagick
but anyway it was too slow,
so now its compilation is made optional,
it is a bit abandonware..

use webcamstudio instead ( http://www.ws4gl.org/ ),
it does the same as gstreamer that Iohannes recommends,
but with an interface...
it will output the screenshots to a vloopback device ..

about the disposition on the screen, no eye deer ..

ahoj!
sevy

John Harrison wrote:
is there a way to do these screenshots such that they don't actually show up on a screen visible to the user i.e I don't have to show the raw Pd patch to the user, only the mix? This is a 2-headed machine (one machine --- I'll use 2 if I absolutely have to) and the plan is to show a Gem or pdp window fullscreen on one head and a pdp window fullscreen on the other. This leaves me not sure where to put the Pd patch for the screenshots.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:44 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at <mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at>> wrote:

    On 2010-08-30 17:04, John Harrison wrote:
    > I'd like to take a patch from a pd window and mix it live with a
    Gem or pdp
    > window. pdp_capture would have been the ticket, but I can't get
    it to
    > compile and looking at the archives of this list, it doesn't
    seem like
    > others have had luck with it either. Any other ideas for me?
    >

    a bit complicated, but you can do that by doing screenshots with
    gstreamer, send it to a videoloopback device and read that (with pdp,
    Gem, GridFlow or whatelse)

    - get v4l2loopback (http://code.google.com/p/v4l2loopback/)
     compile, install, load the module
    - get gst-v4l2loopback (http://github.com/umlaeute/gst-v4l2loopback)
     compile (need gst-plugin-base-dev), install

    run the gstreamer-pipeline, e.g.
    $ gst-launch ximagesrc use-damage=false startx=0 starty=0 endx=640
    endy=480 ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace ! v4l2loopback

    access the video using [pix_video], [pdp_v4l2] [#camera] or cat


    running here.
    this of course only grabs a portion of the screen, rather than a
    window
    and track that...

    fgmadfs
    IOhannes



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