On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:14:00PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: > Hi Luc, > > Yes but there are references to *RomTable, pwc_dec23_decompress or > things like that.
Ok, but anyone can modify the driver in the kernel and submit a cleanup of the driver. Two weeks ago, i've resync my driver with the kernel driver. *RomTable can be removed if the decompressor is not in the kernel. > But the current kernel doesn't support compressed format, isn't it ? As the pwc driver in the kernel doesn't support v4l2, it can't support compressed stream. > So the userspace application should be able to use the uncompressed > stuff and it won't change anything. yes but only 320x240 and some framerates. > Yes the users still need your driver with the decompressor, but it will > allow people to use external decompressor as soon as there is a library > or application that support it and not need to wait the next kernel > release and that their distribution support this kernel. If the decompressor is not in the kernel. You need to change every application. It takes already a lot of times to add some new codec to ekiga, that chaging mplayer, xawtv, amsn (because someone want to have a better support ....), ... I would prefer to send a patch to the kernel with the decompressor and with the RAW stream export, and when v4l1 will be removed from the kernel, i'll remove the decompressor from the driver. Luc _______________________________________________ pwc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.saillard.org/mailman/listinfo/pwc
