> I haven't had a question related to a zoran based card's in years. So > I'm quite sure there are not much users out there that use a zoran based > video cards in a up to date environment. > > Because of that I would really suggest that somebody removes the whole > zoran driver from the linux kernel.
Just my twocent.. I have such a card but when I tried to use it last time for a recording, I've had to jump through quite a few loops: I needed an older kernel as video4linux v1 rotated out of support a few years ago. After installing an older kernel, I found out that dependance on OSS is hardcoded into the tools. Neither Alsa-OSS nor Pulse-OSS worked. It seems like the code is not really maintained any more. Personally, I try to move to a USB-grabber solution (not sure if well supported in linux). Hardware En-/De-coder support seems to have lost any importance as modern CPUs are fast enough to support better and more versatile codecs; Playback via Zoran cards seems unneccessary as graphic cards feature better outputs (S-Video seems really deprecated when compared to the HDMI output even cheap cards have nowadays). I can't think of a good usecase for those cards in an up-to-date environment. I used to hope that Linux will always support "old" hardware but maybe it's time to move on. tl;dr: I support the request for removal. Regards, Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
