From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 02:37:47 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 89FF21065691 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mrechberger@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8518FC14 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:37:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mrechberger@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so143132fgb.35 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:37:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=tmcMDCTR12ncsyKyMru2iKUNIoMzh1OTuswhBclGJiU=; b=HfR1vZSr5jOhfOU8crA7mrX5tpAmlMVVsu7ujzh0x/rQh32I9magcEAQVbQec8gbgc 562GdnTtYE9F8XnMEAP7t486qsmJt+pUrSm5tk3ZxjZXdQ/6Ih30dbWqf/GGoSVb1eHE pMeSFaCPqlaMJg5sCy03kK8BoXnNal4axtvac= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=XQLh0/oj+4kUUheti7in0tvrAbv2CYeqAfapt2ZpKHl+el+dV3MSayFxXPHDaRyZzT fOIYfFvNpSeBoXkcDY3tgSbXh8zAihld80FIdFR/8+F39Vp7heJ2JuwCcqLeg9wbf0tO JkPtHz3jETso4WKsFitrJiNCsWdzgAxB4VHfI= Received: by 10.187.216.15 with SMTP id t15mr2142628faq.68.1222310265967; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.187.181.7 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:37:45 +0200 From: "Markus Rechberger" To: "Intron is my alias on the Internet" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <949626.72396.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <200809240847.27194.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org 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 02:37:47 -0000 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Intron is my alias on the Internet wrote: > 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). isn't it DMB-TH for China? I heard some rumors about other standards too lately and that manufacturers are trying to push something else? Markus