Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:06:19 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: joseph_boniakowski@brown.edu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: capturing video with ATI cards Message-ID: <200203061006.g26A6JYP000589@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1015378445.464.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On 6 Mär, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> It seems that the only cards that one can use to capture video under >> FreeBSD are the Brooktree based ones using the bktr driver. Also, it >> seems that apps that want to use this driver code to it, rather than >> some video API. Is that the state of video-capturing affairs on >> FreeBSD, or is there an API to target? > > There is no API :( > Feel free to port V4L :) > (Which I believe won't actually work in freebsd due to dumb a API) If someone wants to do the hard work (designing/implementing a better API), he should have a look at http://www.linuxpower.com/display.php?id=215 ("Putting together a complete multimedia architecture for Unix") http://www.linuxpower.com/display.php?id=216 ("Video I/O on Linux: Lessons Learned from SGI") Bye, Alexander. -- The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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