From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Mar 6 2:23:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135337B402 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 02:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16iYIv-00084M-09; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:05:49 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.122.105]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16iYIq-0HF89QC; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:05:44 +0100 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g26A6JYP000589; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:06:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200203061006.g26A6JYP000589@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:06:19 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: capturing video with ATI cards To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: joseph_boniakowski@brown.edu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1015378445.464.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 6 Mär, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> It seems that the only cards that one can use to capture video under >> FreeBSD are the Brooktree based ones using the bktr driver. Also, it >> seems that apps that want to use this driver code to it, rather than >> some video API. Is that the state of video-capturing affairs on >> FreeBSD, or is there an API to target? > > There is no API :( > Feel free to port V4L :) > (Which I believe won't actually work in freebsd due to dumb a API) If someone wants to do the hard work (designing/implementing a better API), he should have a look at http://www.linuxpower.com/display.php?id=215 ("Putting together a complete multimedia architecture for Unix") http://www.linuxpower.com/display.php?id=216 ("Video I/O on Linux: Lessons Learned from SGI") Bye, Alexander. -- The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message