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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Cc: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac3
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:34:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098448494.31003.37.camel@gonzales> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022143036.462742ca.luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>

Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:13:35AM +0200, Luca Risolia wrote:
> > > o       Restore PWC driver                              (Luc Saillard)
> > 
> > This driver does decompression in kernel space, which is not
> > allowed. That part has to be removed from the driver before
> > asking for the inclusion in the mainline kernel.
> 
> I know this problem, but without a user API like ALSA, each driver need to
> implement the decompression module. When the driver will support v4l2, we can
> return the compressed stream to the user land. I want a v4l3, which is
> designed as ALSA does for soundcard, with a API for userland and kernelland.

Why not use gstreamer as a userland API ? You deliver compressed video
through v4l2, then write a decompression plugin specific to your
chipset.

	Xav


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22  8:13 Linux 2.6.9-ac3 Luca Risolia
2004-10-22  9:21 ` Luc Saillard
2004-10-22 12:30   ` Luca Risolia
2004-10-22 12:34     ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-10-22 13:33       ` Luc Saillard
2004-10-22 14:22         ` Ronald S. Bultje
2004-10-22 14:38         ` David Weinehall
2004-10-22 14:15       ` Gergely Nagy
2004-10-22 13:16     ` Luc Saillard
2004-10-22 14:07       ` Luca Risolia
2004-10-22 14:10     ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-22 15:51       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-22 18:14         ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-23 13:41           ` Luca Risolia
2004-10-22 11:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-22 13:00   ` Luca Risolia
2004-10-22 15:49     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-23 14:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-23 17:36   ` Luca Risolia
2004-10-25 22:22     ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-26  5:29       ` Luc Saillard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-21 23:08 Alan Cox
2004-10-22  0:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22  1:18 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-22  6:36 ` Jens Axboe

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