From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 02:34:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB811065696 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@intron.ac) Received: from intron.ac (unknown [211.166.10.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5AB78FC1B for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@intron.ac) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1003) by intron.ac with local; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:34:23 +0800 id 000EBCBC.48DAF8AF.00011315 References: <949626.72396.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <200809240847.27194.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <200809240847.27194.hselasky@c2i.net> From: "Intron is my alias on the Internet" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:34:23 +0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Subject: Re: Which Userland Interface for USB Video Class Driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:25 -0000 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> >> Instead, look at Jason Harmening's work on cx88 support: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2008-September/009116 >>.html >> >> ... that's the future. >> >> V4L2 has a well defined interface, and numerous applications >> already support it. It's not tied to any particular hardware, >> company, or chip so it's not going to die like bktr did. >> >> IMHO, V4L2 should be the future for BSDs as well. >> >> Implementing a V4L2-IOCTL interface would be a moderately difficult >> but very rewarding project. > When talking about HDTV standards, as I know, there are quite a few versions on the world: Europe: DVB USA: ATSC Japan: ISDB China: AVS I wish there is no trouble in open source community against our Chinese standard AVS, which is friendly to hardware vendor and TV operator (very low charge for patent usage, and not to charge content maker/publisher and TV operator). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Beijing, China