Re: Debian policy on multimedia ?

["Herman Robak" <herman@skolelinux.no>]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:25:26 +0100, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:

> 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.

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!

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Herman Robak