From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 18 5: 3:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9EB14BD0 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA22163; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001181301.FAA22163@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Thomas Runge" Cc: "'freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: something like video4linux the 2. (some thoughts...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:33:57 +0100." <38845DB5.AB1C702D@rostock.zgdv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:01:17 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Well, it's true, that we need more applications. And there are > quite a few for Linux, which are of almost no use for us, yet. Really, I didn't have much of a problem in coding up an XFree86 Xv module to our bt848 interface and I based it upon the linux Xv module. I really don't mind people porting the video capture apps to FreeBSD. Now if people are not willing to : 1) Write the apps 2) Even port simple linux video apps Then why should we even try to come up with a v4linux api? You know it takes effort to run the linux emulator to keep up with the crappy linux libraries even large linux projects are having problems with their crappy libc vs glibc xxx versions. Additionally, it takes effort to port the apps to FreeBSD even if we have a v4linux api . After this , if the group really feels compel to start a V4Linux project -- cool ! -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message