Now, to not to reimplement the wheel, I'd repeat the suggestion of basically copying and adapting something for start. Further details should be kept off this list, I think, perhaps in [-multimedia].
Harti Brandt wrote:
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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