From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 15 13:28:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de [192.102.170.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F3B37B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from runge@rostock.zgdv.de) Received: from penguin.egd.igd.fhg.de ([192.102.170.145]) by kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA348E for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:28:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:28:38 +0100 (CET) From: "Thomas Runge" X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Breakthrough: MPEG-2 hardware for FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: <3AB0AFD6.65C37880@aurora.regenstrief.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote: > I just browsed through the source code, and it looks as if Linux > has some videodevice infrastructure, reminds me of the voxware > infrastructure for soundcards that we also borrowed from Linux. Reminds me that we still have no volunteer to port the V4L api to BSD. That would be cool. Anyone? > Also it seems as if this suite uses the i2c bus, which I heard > rumors is now also supported by FreeBSD (though couldn't find > respective sources in the 4.2 RELEASE kernel.) This stuff looks Well, it's in use for ages now, at least in Rogers bktr driver. Beginning with a private solution, then switched over to a generic driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/iicbus/ Roger told me something about new Hauppauge cards with a cheap mpeg chip on it, which can do realtime encoding/decoding as well. So we need some abstract API for these cards and it would be cool, if we could stay compatible with Linux' API's. And after seeing /dev/bktr doing so well but almost no applications, we really should find some people interested in a V4L port. There are tons of multimedia applications for Linux using it... -- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message