From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 12 11:47:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4107837B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:47:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7315043FDF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2CJlajb063651; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:47:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:47:36 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Yury Tarasievich Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are there any on-going projects on v4l porting? Message-ID: <20030312194736.GM34322@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030308015609.R680@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 12), Yury Tarasievich said: > At http://freebsddvb.narod.ru, there exists an adequately up-to-date > port of linux DVB drivers, seemingly supporting DVB adapters up to > rev.1.5. > > Regarding porting of V4L. I may be utterly wrong, but isn't the whole > V4L/V4L2/V4L2-whatever thing rather made ad hoc, not really designed? > Could something reincarnating BeOS (or even OS/2) multimedia > subsystem be better? I like the idea of putting this into the Xfree86 drivers and using the XVideo extension to drive everything. that doesn't require kernel mods. It does mean that you need to start X up to capture video, though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message