Subject: Re: Webcam support - where to go from here?
To: Dave Tyson <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: current-users
Date: 03/03/2005 12:25:32
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:29:42AM +0000, Dave Tyson wrote:
> IMHO the only practical approaches are (3) use V4l2 or (4) a separate API and
> a compatability layer. Reusing the bktr API (2) is probably a bad thing as a
> lot of the satellite PCI cards have quite a different set of requirements .
If I understood a co-worker correctly, v4l only does handle analog receivers
and linux uses something else for dvb. This sounds ... wrong.
Martin