Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:20:51 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone working on V4L2 for BSD? Message-ID: <20050414172052.14E685D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:31:26 %2B0200." <20050413143126.7e0jufn80c0cwow4@netchild.homeip.net>
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> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:31:26 +0200 > From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm considerring it.. It looks quite doable. (assuming we can get > > compatible include files > > without copyright problems.) > > > > For compatibility we'd probably want to keep all the V4L prefixes etc. > > > > Is anyone else playing with this? > > There was a discussion about something like this a while ago... a, I see you > participated in it too: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2003-July/000328.html > http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/videobsd.html This is something I would love to see. FreeBSD being limited to various forms of Brooktree video chips is a serious limitation in this day and age. I routinely have to tell people who want to use our H.323 conferencing system from a laptop that they are OOL. :-( And even desktop users are annoyed that they can't use their (already purchased) USB cameras and that they have to get a camera with video output and a WinTV card. Of course, I am still fighting a battle with getting recent GnomeMeeting to work on V5, but I do make a bit of progress on this from time to time when I have a chance to work on it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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