From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 0:51: 6 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 12C9637B404 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39D543FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2D8p1M21147; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:51:01 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:51:01 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Yury Tarasievich Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there any on-going projects on v4l porting? In-Reply-To: <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by> Message-ID: <20030313094842.N641@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <20030308015609.R680@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message