Re: Debian policy on multimedia ?
Hi,
> > I'd expect the following kind of stuff to be documented. If it's not
> > available, or it's not set in stone, that's what really needs
> > documenting, and maybe further work.
> >
> > 1. how input info is configured. For TV info, xawtv seems like the de
> > facto standard, but I'm not sure if the configs are really used by
> > mplayer etc.
>
> I have not used Video4Linux for several years. I use DV and
> HDV cameras, and ieee1394 has a whole different API on Linux.
> I do think that is a problem, but it may be beyond the scope of
> what we are outlining here.
Yikes; at least we'd like to know the current state of problems.
What kind of protocol is that?
At least that's something worth documenting. It sounds like there is
still a lot of upstream work to be done in video field.
Audio on the other hand seems to have mostly settled for ALSA and jack.
(I'm not sure if portaudio is gone?)
> Ieee1394 configuration needs a policy, too. It is somewhat
> worrying that the preferred device for (H)DV capture is /dev/raw1394,
> which can also be a disk device!
Yes, this is too bad. It might be nice to get something implemented.
A symbollic link for DV capture device, and someone to configure it
looking at its device characteristics.
I suspect there will be more USB2 devices in the future, using
something similar to usb-dvb. I'm not quite sure if they use v4l2
protocol, although they are available on the same Hg
repository. Hmm...
regards,
junichi
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