Mode setting API's

[Martijn Sipkema]

[...]
> Usually when I say that people tell me that opengl is also controled by
> companies, the simple diffrance I see is the fact that opengl does have
> something to do with hardware and like it or not we need hardware
> companies support, but AFAICS this is not the case with openML.

It is. OpenML is to video hardware what OpenGL is for graphics hardware.

> another thing I find weird is the lack of responds from the developers to
> the forum they host, and the fact they complitly ignored existing
> techonologies like openAL.

OpenML is more aimed at video than audio. Also OpenAL is _not_ a
the API of choice when doing normal, i.e. non 3d, audio.

> I'm not sure it's a good idea to count on them,
> I hope the open standard community would release a better more community
> aware standard

I'm hoping they decide to open up more, which I think is planned. A lot
of the companies involved are also with OpenGL. Perhaps sending them
an email requesting the availability under the same conditions as the OpenGL
sample implementation would be a good idea? Note that the standard itself
_is_ available.

Linux does lack a good video API at the moment...

--ms



>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > I'm looking at the OpenML spec and it covers the areas that we have been
> > discussing plus a lot more. But the Khronos Group doesn't appear to be
very Open
> > Source friendly.  It seems that I have to apply for membership and
return signed
> > documents to get a Linux SDK.  But some of their other projects are
hosted at
> > Sourceforge.  What's their intention, are they Open Source or not?
> >
> > --- Keith Whitwell <keith at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > > As I've said, I don't have a deep grasp of the requirements of a
putative
> > > future mode-setting API, but in the course of other reading I came
across
> > > MLdc, which is a part of the OpenML environment.  This is a library
API which
> > > seems to give comprehensive control of mode-setting to an application,
but
> > > also seems to provide a reasonably easy way to set simple modes.  It
also has
> > > an extension mechanism.
> > >
> > > It's currently dependent on X to a tiny degree, so there would be some
work in
> > >
> > > adapting it to become "stand-alone", and it probably has no conception
of
> > > things like virtual terminals, etc.
> > >
> > > Anyway, the OpenML spec is here:
> > >
> > > http://www.khronos.org/openml/spec.html
> > >
> > > MLdc is a component of the larger environment.
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > >
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