From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 17:15:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB03A16A4CF for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6642843D55 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:15:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 13990 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2005 17:15:03 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Apr 2005 17:15:03 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (elopip@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])j3DHF2GH021537; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:15:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j3DHF177021536; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:15:01 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20050413171500.GN56487@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Leidinger , Julian Elischer , FreeBSD Current , multimedia@freebsd.org References: <425C18A2.8010807@elischer.org> <20050413143126.7e0jufn80c0cwow4@netchild.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050413143126.7e0jufn80c0cwow4@netchild.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: FreeBSD Current cc: Julian Elischer cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone working on V4L2 for BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:15:05 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote this message on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 14:31 +0200: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > >I'm considerring it.. It looks quite doable. (assuming we can get > >compatible include files > >without copyright problems.) > > > >For compatibility we'd probably want to keep all the V4L prefixes etc. > > > >Is anyone else playing with this? > > There was a discussion about something like this a while ago... a, I see you > participated in it too: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2003-July/000328.html > http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/videobsd.html Yes, I did... and unless V4L2 managed to change a lot.. It's API is still years behind what we should have... The reason I haven't said anything is that I didn't want to attempt to derail any work that someone might be doing.. Yes, V4L2 is not a very good api, but as others have pointed out, it makes portability easier... Plus, I haven't spent any time on VideoBSD recently, since I've gotten sidetracked by other projects... (Though if I can get ATI to give me specs for their HDTV PCI card, I might spend some more time on it...) So, if you just want Linux compatiblity, go for it... If you want a real usable video API, then send me comments and look at the VideoBSD stuff I have done... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."