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Add a GstCapsFilter between every video source and the rest of the pipeline. This will force the sources to have the same capaibilties as the "pidgindefaultvideosrc" and should reduce CPU usage as well. Refs #13095. committer: John Bailey <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
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HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.