[gst-devel] Combining V4l and V4l2?

[Edgard Lima]

Hi Rob,

now Im working in a neon-http plugin, after that, following my planned 
schedulle, I ll work exactly in v4l and v4l2 for 0.10
Unfortunatelly I cant help u right now (neither I have knowledge to 
that) but I ll help u for sure as soon as I finish neon-http plugin.

Best Regards,
Edgard  - (alima)
edgard.lima at indt.org.br



Rob Kramer wrote:

>Hi Ronald,
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>On Tuesday 20 December 2005 13:56, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
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>>So, v4l1 with saa7134 has issues because of proxy problems in the
>>v4l1-compat kernel module. This is not necessarily a module problem, but
>>rather a problem where some v4l1 ioctls do not have a 1:1 match in v4l2.
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>I sent a sample to the video4linux mailing list, but no result so far.
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>>I've experienced similar problems
>>in other software and the fix (or, rather, workaround) was to simply use
>>v4l2... Porting v4l2src may be your best shot.
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>I've spend a day trying to revive v4l2src, and it basically comes down to 
>copying *lots* of code from v4lsrc. Much of the code is identical. (I guess 
>v4l2 src was copied from v4lsrc, but v4l2src was left to rot). Instead of 
>doing all this work and ending up with a v4l2src that is going to break at 
>the next API change, wouldn't it be a good idea to combine the two? Perhaps 
>still allowing selection by means of a property or so, or otherwise just at 
>compile time.
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>Why do people still use v4l1 anyway, for old kernels? Or does it offer 
>something v4l2 doesn't have?
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>Cheers,
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>    Rob
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