From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 18 0:56:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E6214A1F for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from cs.strath.ac.uk (scary.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.202.5]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11134 Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:56:18 GMT Message-ID: <38842744.2747018@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:41:40 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Jaeckel Joachim , "'freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: something like video4linux the 2. (some thoughts...) References: <200001180741.XAA19364@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Amancio, > What you want is more video capture device drivers for different video > capture boards using the bt848 ioctl interface which is sufficiently general > to accomodate most video capture programs. I agree that the API the Bt848/878 driver has is nice and has served us well over the years. One cannot ignore the growing number of V4L apps, including commercial ones like the RealMedia Video Server. Even SANE is adding a V4L interface to grab frames from a camera and V4L is being used by OpenH323 (the opensource NetMeeting clone) Of course, we can write stubs for SANE and OpenH323 for our API. But as commercial companies write for V4L, it would be handy for us to support it too. We just need that magical expert who can learn V4L and can add it to the driver. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message