From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 17:05:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C388116A4BF for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBE043F85 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from lizacnet.demon.co.uk ([80.177.208.105] helo=markdnet.demon.co.uk) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19qiOC-000NUV-0U for multimedia@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:05:48 +0100 Message-ID: <3F480FE2.4020804@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:07:46 +0000 From: Mark Dixon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030723 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BSD video capture emulation question X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:05:51 -0000 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > AFAICS what's needed is someone with some insight into what makes > a good video API if FreeBSD is ever going to get one. The innards of > things like ffmpeg and transcode are probably worth looking at as models. A reasonably recent multimedia API would be Sun's Java Media Framework - available at http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/guide/JMFTOC.html From a high design perspective, for the higher level parts of a multimedia API, IMHO its pretty good. Mark