From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 10 22:25:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pendragon.tacni.net (radius.tacni.net [64.247.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92F1637B416 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 41934 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 06:25:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) (216.201.213.69) by tacni.net with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 06:25:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Erich Zigler To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video4Linux ./ Video4FreeBSD ? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:25:04 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020111062504.92F1637B416@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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