From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 1 11:27:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA02522 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 11:27:15 -0700 Received: from crab.xinside.com (crab.xinside.com [199.164.187.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA02509 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 11:27:07 -0700 Received: (from jdc@localhost) by crab.xinside.com (8.6.8/8.6.9) id MAA07543; Mon, 1 May 1995 12:42:55 -0600 From: Jeremy Chatfield Message-Id: <199505011842.MAA07543@crab.xinside.com> Subject: Re: Video stuff... To: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 12:42:55 -0600 (MDT) Cc: hasty@star-gate.com, jdc@xinside.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199505011713.KAA12204@netcom14.netcom.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr" at May 1, 95 10:13:36 am Organization: X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Phone: +1(303)470-5302 Reply-To: jdc@xinside.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1561 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty Jr writes: > > >At the moment, we believe that we will have to create our own > >extension, probably building an API that will be a compatible > >extension of the X Video extension. We will also need a device > > Tnks, I am thinking about similar lines. My first cut at this > problem will be to just have a simple app that can control the > video overlay window and the mpeg stream. The second round will be > two modify the X video extensions to allow us to feed it mpeg data. > > Thanks again for your input :) We expect to start publishing our interface specs in a few months, when Release 1.2 is finally out of the door. I don't know what time requirements you have, but you might want to look at our API. It would reduce some of the incompatibility madness that afflicts the UNIX derivative environments... We'd certainly be prepared to look at your specs, and we may even be able to provide some suggestions with only mildly annoying criticism ;-) I think that you will need to develop much of the X Video spec API initially, since you probably want to have a superset of that functionality with the added capability of MPEG feed and controls. We found that it took us several months to bring to acceptable quality. Cheers, JeremyC. -- Jeremy Chatfield, +1(303)470-5302, FAX:+1(303)470-5513, email:jdc@xinside.com X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Commercial X Server - for more information please try these services http://www.xinside.com info@xinside.com ftp.xinside.com