initial support for video devices and printer ports

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Mon Sep 13 08:54:07 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 23:46 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 21:01 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to add:
> > 
> > Support for v4l devices:
> >   http://vrfy.org/projects/hal/v4l.png
> >   o it supports v4l and v4l2
> >     (the v4l2 headers are missing on Fedora, so I copied the one struct in)
> >   o we need to define the capabilities ,it's just "video.FIXME" now
> 
> Here are basic properties instead of FIXME:
> 
>   /* set defaults */
>   hal_device_property_set_bool (d, "video.can_capture", FALSE);
>   hal_device_property_set_bool (d, "video.can_output", FALSE);
>   hal_device_property_set_bool (d, "video.has_tuner", FALSE);
>   hal_device_property_set_bool (d, "video.has_audio", FALSE);
>   hal_device_property_set_int (d, "video.video_channel_count", 0);
>   hal_device_property_set_int (d, "video.audio_channel_count", 0);
>   hal_device_property_set_string (d, "video.version", "");

I've committed this initial version for support of video4linux devices
now. Suggestions for more properties or different property names are
more than welcome. And a current screenshot here for my very old webcam:

  http://vrfy.org/projects/hal/HAL-multimedia.jpg

Thanks,
Kay

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