On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: DN>In the last episode (Mar 12), Yury Tarasievich said: DN>> At http://freebsddvb.narod.ru, there exists an adequately up-to-date DN>> port of linux DVB drivers, seemingly supporting DVB adapters up to DN>> rev.1.5. DN>> DN>> Regarding porting of V4L. I may be utterly wrong, but isn't the whole DN>> V4L/V4L2/V4L2-whatever thing rather made ad hoc, not really designed? DN>> Could something reincarnating BeOS (or even OS/2) multimedia DN>> subsystem be better? DN> DN>I like the idea of putting this into the Xfree86 drivers and using the DN>XVideo extension to drive everything. that doesn't require kernel DN>mods. It does mean that you need to start X up to capture video, DN>though.
The problem with this is probably the number of context switches and copies or IPC you need to get a frame. With > 25 fps this is a problem. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message