Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:25:04 -0600 From: Erich Zigler <erichz@superhero.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video4Linux ./ Video4FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20020111062504.92F1637B416@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020111164650.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.20020111164650.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Friday 11 January 2002 12:16 am, you wrote: > > Is there some way to use Video4Linux applications under FreeBSD? > Nope. Damn. > > There are a lot of just utter killer Video4Linux apps and I believe it > > would be very beneficial for FreeBSD to be able to tap into those > > applications. > Yes :) Yeah, mplayer has released a killer encoding video+audio program that can take the output of a TV Tuner card and make it a divx file. It's called mencode. Hit the mplayer website it looks very cool. > > We can run Linux applications, how much harder would it be to take the > > next step with Video4Linux? > > If this isn't possible right now, what do you believe would be the > > steps to implementing this? Because it would be a project I would like > > to start developing. > You would need to implement the V4L API. > If you go for source compat it shouldn't be too hard, but you'd need to > write a fair amount of glue kernel code to get it running. > I'd aim for V4L v2 if I were you, V4L v1 has some issues. Yes, unfortunatley my coding skills are quite a bit less then above par. So I would have to have some help to get this rolling. Is anyone else interested in this? -- Life is like sendmail: It's complicated and hard to understand, but it sure beats the alternative. -- Paul Tomblin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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