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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: capturing video with ATI cards
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To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:30:27 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 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")

Or just have a look at GATOS, it does grapping from ATI based cards
in userland, I did a port years ago, but IIRC GATOS can now compile
on FreeBSD out of the box...

-Søren

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