Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:30:27 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, joseph_boniakowski@brown.edu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: capturing video with ATI cards Message-ID: <200203061030.g26AURw77610@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200203061006.g26A6JYP000589@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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