Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:51:03 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: Scott Donovan <scottd@telstra.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BT848/winTV/Teletext/video4linux etc. Message-ID: <19990416215102.B2020@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <3716F793.DAE3794D@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from Roger Hardiman on Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:40:51AM %2B0100 References: <3.0.5.32.19990414123641.02548550@nico.telstra.net> <19990415224848.B22102@ipass.net> <3716F793.DAE3794D@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Roger: |I think we should standarise on the newer Video4Linux Version 2 API. |Unlike classic V4L, this API has a userland library so you do not need |to clone all the ioctls exactly. |And the author is quite happy to rename it to something like |Video4Unix (ie drop the linux part) Sounds good. From your recommendation, I'm assuming that the API and top-level support software isn't released under (or if so, can be relicensed without) GPL or LPGL. That seems pretty important since we'll be linking with it -- and I hear everywhere about the GNU infect-through-linking license policy. |However, I will add. But perhaps someone would like to create a libtv |or libvideo Right. libtv/libvideo would be part of this userland API we're talking about. Shouldn't be too tough. I see it taking longer coming up with an API which will meet everyone's current needs. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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