On 01/26/2013 08:57 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: >> Same offer here. >> > Hopefully if enough people pester them they will maybe consider either > providing a plain C api or just document their kernel device and let > people drive it as they like. > I've recently tried to explain within the archiving community (on the "Association of Moving Image Archivists" (AMIA) mailing list [1]) how, and why, I think we should increase requirement of openness from hardware vendors in order to get high-quality, sustainable equipment for our use-cases [2] in a way that'd be very profitable for them, too. ...instead of just living with the "leftovers" from broadcasters or consumer-grade equipment ;)
With digital video use-cases (and therefore demand for hardware) increasing, Blackmagic might be clever enough to see their opportunity if they'd enable others to use their hardware besides their constrained market use-cases. If they did, they might turn into the WRT-54GL [3] of capture/playback cards and go down in history. Who knows... Regards, Pb == References: [1] http://www.amianet.org/participate/listserv.php [2] http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1212&L=amia-l&F=&S=&P=30612 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
