On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:59:16AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Jörg Hermsdorf wrote: > > b) if it would be a good design concept, if uvcvideo would do > > multiplexing, or if it would be better if a designated daemon would do > > the multiplexing? > > This kind of advanced functionality is best handled in userspace. That > should be the job of a multimedia framework (which can use a daemon or > any other suitable method).
>From the architecture POV, a framework, e.g. with a daemon, seems the right way. However, look at what happened with OSS: There were a handful of different "sound daemons", and program authors had to re-implement their sound support for all of them, which caused them additional work. :-/ The _v4l2 kernel developers_ would also have to supply the userspace side of the API to avoid this kind of fragmentation. A small "libv4l2" with a simple filtering/plugin mechanism would be enough... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
