Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 16:00 PST From: Denis DeLaRoca (310) 825-4580 <CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@LABINFO.IET.UNIPI.IT> Cc: multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Intel's Smart Video Recorder III Message-ID: <199612130001.QAA21643@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:12:06 +0100 MET, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@LABINFO.IET.UNIPI.IT> said: > It would be a good idea, if the hardware permits, to keep (a subset) > the same ioctls of the meteor, so that one can reuse the same > software. I find annoying that there isn't a standard set of ioctls for > video acquisition boards. Maybe those in the meteor driver are not > better than others, but they are relatively flexible, and the > meteor/omnimedia are the only boards which are well supported under > FreeBSD, so it might be wise to settle on that as a standard. Something akin to the "Open Sound Driver", how about an "Open Video Driver" that can talk to several cards and offer a single API for video programming? -- Denis
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