Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:53:27 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are there any on-going projects on v4l porting? Message-ID: <20030313095141.C641@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20030312194736.GM34322@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030308015609.R680@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <3E6F74AD.3000306@grsu.by> <20030312194736.GM34322@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: DN>In the last episode (Mar 12), Yury Tarasievich said: DN>> At http://freebsddvb.narod.ru, there exists an adequately up-to-date DN>> port of linux DVB drivers, seemingly supporting DVB adapters up to DN>> rev.1.5. DN>> DN>> Regarding porting of V4L. I may be utterly wrong, but isn't the whole DN>> V4L/V4L2/V4L2-whatever thing rather made ad hoc, not really designed? DN>> Could something reincarnating BeOS (or even OS/2) multimedia DN>> subsystem be better? DN> DN>I like the idea of putting this into the Xfree86 drivers and using the DN>XVideo extension to drive everything. that doesn't require kernel DN>mods. It does mean that you need to start X up to capture video, DN>though. The problem with this is probably the number of context switches and copies or IPC you need to get a frame. With > 25 fps this is a problem. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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