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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:47:36 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Are there any on-going projects on v4l porting?
Message-ID:  <20030312194736.GM34322@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by>
References:  <20030308015609.R680@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by>

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In the last episode (Mar 12), Yury Tarasievich said:
> At http://freebsddvb.narod.ru, there exists an adequately up-to-date
> port of linux DVB drivers, seemingly supporting DVB adapters up to
> rev.1.5.
> 
> Regarding porting of V4L. I may be utterly wrong, but isn't the whole
> V4L/V4L2/V4L2-whatever thing rather made ad hoc, not really designed? 
> Could something reincarnating BeOS (or even OS/2) multimedia
> subsystem be better?

I like the idea of putting this into the Xfree86 drivers and using the
XVideo extension to drive everything.  that doesn't require kernel
mods.  It does mean that you need to start X up to capture video,
though.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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