Bug#468073: gst-plugins-base0.10: Gstreamer inputs default to outdated V4L, and require to be changed to V4L2 on first run

[Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com]

Package: gst-plugins-base0.10
Version: 0.10.17-3
Severity: normal

Most modern webcam and capture devices are V4L2 based, but gstreamer and
Ekiga both default to using V4L instead. The V4L API isn't even
available in 2.6 kernels 
beyond 2.6.15, so it makes much more sense to disable it by default.

Webcam capture applications that use gstreamer (such as ekiga) throw
errors otherwise.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-8-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Mario Limonciello
Dell | Linux Engineering
Desk : (512) 723-0582
mario_limonciello at dell.com


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