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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:51:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are there any on-going projects on v4l porting?
Message-ID:  <20030313094842.N641@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by>
References:  <20030308015609.R680@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by>

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Yury Tarasievich wrote:

YT>At http://freebsddvb.narod.ru, there exists an adequately up-to-date
YT>port of linux DVB drivers, seemingly supporting DVB adapters up to rev.1.5.
YT>
YT>Regarding porting of V4L. I may be utterly wrong, but isn't the whole
YT>V4L/V4L2/V4L2-whatever thing rather made ad hoc, not really designed?
YT>Could something reincarnating BeOS (or even OS/2) multimedia subsystem
YT>be better?

Yes, last time I had a look at V4L2 it was utterly broken with regard
to ingeneering. Using a O_ flag to the open call to tell the system that
you are going to use only ioctl()s and stuff like that...

harti

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