gregoa's blog

argentina failed at the penalty shoot-out, germany won the quarter final; every german is blowing their (car's) horn. fascinating.

this blog entry was brought to you live from berlin, germany.

update: some hours later: berlin's still partying.

listening to italians in a train compartment is a good language training.

after playing around with "my" webcam I got streaming up more or less. at the moment I have:

#/bin/sh
# http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html
# 176x144
# 352x288
vlc v4l:// \
        :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-adev="/dev/dsp1" \
        :v4l-caching=1000 :v4l-fps=10.000000 \
        :v4l-width=352 :v4l-height=288 \
        --intf dummy \
        --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,fps=10,vb=512,ab=128,venc=ffmpeg{keyint=80,hurry-up,vt=800000},deinterlace}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:1234}'

gxine http://localhost:1234/ worked afterwards. slow, with a lag, & bad sound. but it worked :-)

& the new webcam is already on the way ...

I borrowed a webcam (labtec webcam pro) from a friend yesterday & installed it today. & yeah — it works. some steps:

• get spca5xx-source.
• enable v4l in your kernel if it's not there already.
• unpack /usr/src/spca5xx-source.tar.bz2, create the kernel module with module-assistent (m-a prepare; m-a a-i spca5xx).
• modprobe spca5xx.
• well, that's all. use the cam (/dev/video0 or similar) with qtwengophone, camstream, gqcam, or (nice!) camE. — webcamd (or xawtv/v4lctl) doesn't like it.
• for the microphone you need snd-usb-audio in your kernel; then use /dev/dsp1 or hw:1,0 or similar.

now I've ordered another cam of the same type for the friend who officially still owns "my" cam ;-)

& maybe you'll find something on http://info.comodo.priv.at/webcam/ sometimes ...

on other news: cpulimit has entered the Debian archive yesterday.
& today tony mancill has uploaded jabref — thanks!

good will & efforts are not enough. I sent 3 bug reports today: #370733 is not reproducible (not even by myself), #370729 is a duplicate^Wtriplicate^Wquadruplicate^Wyou-name-it-plicate, at least #370741 is still alive ...

a small consolation: cdck has entered the archive yesterday.