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4.333. unicap

An updated unicap package that fixes multiple bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The unicap package provides a uniform interface to video capture devices. It allows applications to use any supported video capture device via a single application programming interface (API). The included ucil library provides functions to render text and graphic overlays onto video images.

Bug Fixes

BZ#612693
Prior to this update, the unicap package did not provide the libucil, libunicap and libunicap-gtk virtual packages. As a result, it was not possible to install packages that depended on the libucil, libunicap and libunicap-gtk packages. This update fixes the declaration "--provides" so that the unicap package now provides the virtual packages.
BZ#635644
Prior to this update, the unicap utility did not check for the return value of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) initialization. As a result, unicap terminated unexpectedly if the initialization of ALSA failed. This update adds the missing checks for the return value to handle the ALSA initialization failure gracefully.
BZ#635645
Prior to this update, the unicap utility did not check for the return value of the Theora encoder initialization. As a result, unicap terminated unexpectedly if the initialization of the Theora encoder failed. This update adds the missing checks for the return value to handle the Theora encoder initialization failure gracefully.
BZ#658059
Prior to this update, unicap-devel packages for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures on a single system could not be installed because of conflicts between the packages. This update uses the documentation from the unicap source code archive instead of the documentation generated at build time. Now, unicap-devel packages can be installed as expected.
BZ#728473
Prior to this update, the unicap package was missing a dependency on libv4l2.so.0, although some libraries shipped with unicap were using libv4l2.so.0. This update adds the missing dependency.
All users of unicap are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.