From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 19 8:27:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de [192.102.170.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270181530C for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:27:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from runge@rostock.zgdv.de) Received: from rostock.zgdv.de (kingfisher.egd.igd.fhg.de [153.96.43.107]) by kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4288 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:26:47 +0100 Message-ID: <3885E51D.F7530FCA@rostock.zgdv.de> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:23:57 +0100 From: "Thomas Runge" Organization: http://www.rostock.zgdv.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Video4Unix (1? 2?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There is a nice page about multimedia for Linux: http://www.multimedia4linux.de/ Unfortunately, it's in german. (Fortunately, I speak german ;-> ). There a lot's of links to multimedia software and I took a quick view. It seems, that only very few apps support the V4L2 interface, but quite a lot the bttv driver and (amount growing) the V4L interface (including broadcast 2000). The only commercial vendor of multimedia software I found is mainconcept with it's video editing software Mainactor, which uses V4L2... According to the V4L2 homepage, there is a compatibility layer for "old" V4L software, so if we had a V4L2 interface, everything should be quite nice. Sure, most software is available as source, but porting it to FreeBSD is not everyones beer. I think, it would be quite nice to have the same interface on FreeBSD. Maybe we could ask the Linux people to rename it to something like Video4Unix if it works for us... -- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message