Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:51:34 -0400 From: sbahra@kerneled.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Survey on Video Capture API: BSD meteor(4) vs. Video for Linux 1/2 Message-ID: <20061004155134.ac5htx99ul28g404@www.kerneled.org> In-Reply-To: <courier.4523E13A.0001525D@intron.ac> References: <courier.4523E13A.0001525D@intron.ac>
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[...] > MPlayer supports both kinds of API's. But to gain Linux ybinary > compatibility for FreeBSD, V4L/V4L2 must be introduced to FreeBSD. I think it is wiser to provide an in-kernel API which is far more =20 comprehensive. I suggest you take a look at the VideoBSD project that =20 jmg@ was working on. I was working on a V4L port at one time, the fact =20 is, with regards to the compatibility it is wiser just to provide V4L =20 functionality through user-space stubs or a thin compatibility layer. =20 V4L itself provides no real benefit to driver developers other than =20 the fact that they have standardized values for some ioctl requests =20 and the various data types that are exported. Dianora (db@db) was working on some user-space stubs for V4L as well =20 iirc. From the user-space perspective it is obviously a benefit to =20 support though. Regards. -- Samy Al Bahra '-- http://samy.kerneled.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From Beijing, China > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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