Hi Arne,
Thanks a lot for your input,
Do you think it will be diffucult to port unicap to Wndows to develeop
VfW and DirectShow backends?
Vadim
Arne Caspari wrote:
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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