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
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