Hi wengophone hackers,
I saw there was a discussion to use the unicap library for your project.
Since I am the developer of this library I thought I should give some
explanations to some issues that came up on this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.voip.wengophone.devel/287
The first issue was the lack of CVS. I admit this situation is not too
good. On the other hand I thought that working with the CVS repository
is only an issue for people who also want to develop on the unicap
library itself. I think users ( and projects using the library ) are
better of with the .tar.gz releases since the ought to be tested by me
in some way.
Of course if there is really a demand for CVS, I could reconsidder using
it again ( especially when sourceforge comes around to use SVN which
should work even better for me ).
The next issue is the lack of documentation and I admit it is a problem.
I have this on the list but the main goal of this library is to keep it
as simple as possible so there should not be a problem in understanding
the API.
To the question whether the project is still active: It is indeed
active. I work for a company called The Imaging Source (
www.1394imaging.com ) which manufactures digital imaging devices (
mostly for industrial/scientific/medical applications ) and unicap is
propagated by them as the Linux API for all of their devices. Actually
unicap is the only way to use some of their devices.
Currently unicap works best for IEEE-1394 ( firewire ) devices and it is
known to work with bt878 based ( video-4-linux-2 driven ) frame grabbers
and several video-4-linux webcams. However since I do not have a
video-4-linux device that works on my laptop anymore, I would be very
interested in any test results regarding video-4-linux devices.
All the best,
/Arne
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