From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 17:30:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org 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 D252A16A41C; Tue, 31 May 2005 17:30:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62CB43D4C; Tue, 31 May 2005 17:30:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815197A403; Tue, 31 May 2005 10:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <429C9F2F.5060704@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:30:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050423 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Friedrich References: <20050531144605.9F75C43D4C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050531144605.9F75C43D4C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Anybody have time to create a new port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:30:24 -0000 Steve Friedrich wrote: > >>not easiily done because mythtv heavily depends on v4l (or v4l2). >>maybe ask on freebsd-multimedia about progress with this. >> >> > > > >>cheers, t. >> >> > >I don't even know what v4l is... > > Video for Linux a VERY crude interface that really only specifies what interfaces a video device should implement to allow applications to talk to it. Ther is almost no kernel support involved as long as teh device and app agree that they are using V4L (or V4L2) There is a very small amount of kernel support needed to provide a way for the devices to register themselves as video sources or sinks, but this has already largly been written, and I'm looking at possibly committing it so that device drivers set up to use V4L can be easier to port to FreeBSD. What is holding me back is that it would be nice to implement a better framework that simply provides a V4L (2) front/back-end for compatibility. I've been out of circulation for over a month but now I'm back and hope to start looking at this again. >Anybody on multimedia can give insight on this or mythTV? > > > >