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Re: Proposed release goal: stop using V4L1



On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 16:26 +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to bring up the V4L1 deprecation goal, again. The original 
> proposal from Ben was:
> 
> > Video4Linux version 1 (V4L1) was obsoleted in the kernel by version 2
> > (V4L2) some years ago and newer video capture drivers do not support
> > V4L1. Applications should all be using V4L2. There is a library (libv4l)
> > that can aid in converting applications that were written for V4L1.
> > Fedora has patched a number of applications to use this.
> >
> > Advocates: Ben Hutchings
> >            anyone else?
> > Short name: novideo4linux1
> > Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoVideo4Linux1
> 
> I'm maintaining the libv4l package that translates the V4L1 calls of the 
> application into V4L2 syscalls.
> 
> I'll try to track down all work needing packages on the mentioned wiki page.

Thanks, I haven't been working on this for some time.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump
of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999

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