Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:11 +0200 From: "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Userland Interface for USB Video Class Driver? Message-ID: <d9def9db0809231500v561b83d7l5814bd7d40210eb2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200809232147.VAA07078@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <949626.72396.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <200809232147.VAA07078@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote: >> > I would write/port a driver for USB video class for FreeBSD's >> > new USB stack (usb2). OpenBSD and NetBSD both has had their >> > own implementations for the device class as some people referred >> > to recently. But which userland interface, bktr(4) or V4L2, should >> > I use for the driver? >> >> We've only got two choices: >> -- bktr is dead, > > Not dead. We will need bktr support for many years. > >> It only supports analog -- analog is a dead end too. > > We will need analog video support for many years. > remember cable providers will not shut down the analog signal that fast. Also S-Video, Scart belong into that area, webcams with different input formats. Think of analog tv devices as webcams with a tuner. >> V4L2 has a well defined interface, > > Are you saying the penguins got something right? > That would be... unusual. it's improving. not perfect at all yet there's not a single TV application available which can handle all the analog TV tuners (same in windows too actually). Markus
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