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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:13:29 -0700
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> wrote:

JMG> Yes, video capture in FreeBSD is sorely lacking.  I recently did a
JMG> Zoran driver and found that the bktr interface is horrid.

	Did you make it fit the bktr interface then ? Is there any chance
of it working in RELENG_4 ? If so can I play with it ?

	AFAICS what's needed is someone with some insight into what makes
a good video API if FreeBSD is ever going to get one. The innards of
things like ffmpeg and transcode are probably worth looking at as models.

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