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From: Fritz Katz <frtzkatz@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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--- On Wed, 10/8/08, "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo(at)iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> ... A snapshot of what i currently have is at
> 
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/saa20081003.tgz
> 
> The driver itself is already pretty much complete for 
> the analog video part -- it supports various formats 
> and the mmap() interface.  Tuner/source/peripheral 
> control is trivially done in userspace (through 
> ioctls to talk to the I2c and GPIO pins) and is not
> timing-sensitive, so there is really no point in 
> doing that in the driver. ...

Will the userspace 'glue' be able to support applications
such as mplayer?:

  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html

Cheers,
-- Fritz.