Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:12:45 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bt848 channel frequencies Message-ID: <19990630171245.A2707@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <377779B0.B52E7D4A@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from Roger Hardiman on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:33:36PM %2B0100 References: <19990627074316.A1600@ipass.net> <199906272257.QAA07116@orthanc.ab.ca> <19990627194019.A1726@ipass.net> <377779B0.B52E7D4A@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Roger Hardiman: |If we want to abstract away the OS dependant parts (the ioctls), |and write a new API, I suggest we follow the Video4Linux Version 2 |API (V4L2). Bill, who devised it, gave it alot of thought and was |happy with a *BSD implementation. As it is still a work-in-progress (and if it turns out that we are really serious about adopting it), maybe we can sell him on calling it Video4Unix. I'm a skeptic though. It might be a positive move. However, given all the volitility in V4L1, and the fact that we won't be the major "market share" customer of the API, FreeBSD driver writers (and thus custom TV app writers) may find themselves following-the-pack implementing changes just to track knee-jerk mods to the API made in the Linux camp. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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