On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:57, Marco Molteni wrote: > Exactly! I know nothing about video, but I understand it would be crazy > (or masochistic) to provide a different API per video driver. I am aware > too of video4linux, which good or bad is at least a standard. Looking > for a standard I found SANE (http://www.mostang.com/sane/) which is or > tries to be the Unix (better?) equivalent of TWAIN. Although SANE means > Scanner Access Now Easy, it talks also about video cameras. > > Any ideas on this?
Generally web cams produce the same end data anyway. The things that vary are resolution and colour depth. V4L support would be nice but it's a lot of infrastructure. You could look at how the bktr driver API works and provide a subset of that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
