Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:46:50 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Erich Zigler <erichz@superhero.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Video4Linux ./ Video4FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20020111164650.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020111061021.0319337B402@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 11-Jan-2002 Erich Zigler wrote: > Is there some way to use Video4Linux applications under FreeBSD? Nope. > There are a lot of just utter killer Video4Linux apps and I believe it > would be very beneficial for FreeBSD to be able to tap into those > applications. Yes :) > We can run Linux applications, how much harder would it be to take the next > step with Video4Linux? > > If this isn't possible right now, what do you believe would be the steps to > implementing this? Because it would be a project I would like to start > developing. You would need to implement the V4L API. If you go for source compat it shouldn't be too hard, but you'd need to write a fair amount of glue kernel code to get it running. I'd aim for V4L v2 if I were you, V4L v1 has some issues. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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