On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:02:49 +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:

> As we're hopefully all painfully aware, webcam support for NetBSD has been
> rather minimal - although all *BSD systems seem to suffer from this. While
> Linux has Video4Linux - a more or less hardware independant interface -, all
> we have is a rather wild collection of tools in pkgsrc (None of them even
> remotely interchangeable) to address individual webcams using the ugen 
> device driver. Not a really good selling point, if you ask me.
> 
> So, where do we go from here? In my humble opinion, we've got a couple of
> possibilities:
> 
> 1) Keep the current situation, maybe trying to make the aforementioned
>    userland programs have a compareable calling convention, so that the
>    amount of chaos is slightly reduced. Shouldn't take a lot of work.

What about making those userland programs GStreamer modules? This won't
require adoption of any kernel API.

Bye	Pavel