[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] *BSD bktr grab support

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:55:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 21:40, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:51:41PM +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > >On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:04:13AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >unless bktr is ported to Linux (unlikely), or V4L and bttv are ported
> > > >to *BSD (maybe some day, but then there would be no need for bktr) ...
> > > >
> > > >impossible, well, no.  likely, definitely no.
> > >
> > > There was a post on v4l ML, where bsd people asking if they could use
> > > the v4l api under a bsd license.
> > > So may be there will be soon a v4l emulation under bsd.
> >
> > I am aware of that effort.  regardless, bktr would be replaced with
> > a new V4L driver (IIRC, there is most of one already).  I would hope,
> > anyway.  so, there would be no need to be able to use both.  and still,
> > it would probably be a year, if things go smooth, before this would
> > affect anyone who isn't fully aware of what they are doing ...
> >
> > the whole reason behind porting V4L to BSD is to make porting apps
> > to BSD easier ... most multimedia stuff comes from Linux land.
> >
> > it would be nice to have something in the meantime.
> 
> yes
> did i underestimate the amount of work to fix the conflict between v4l and 
> bktr in ffmpeg? seems its pretty much just their format name which should be 
> different

sure, it could be done like that.  I was using the way BeOS and OSS
audio are handled as a guide.

> >
> > so, I don't really see this as much more of a conflict than OSS
> > audio and BeOS audio.  speaking of which, would you be interested
> > in "sun" audio support?  someone @NetBSD added this to
> > libavformat/audio.c in their pkgsrc stuff.
> 
> sure we are interested in (almost) everything as long as its cleanly 
> implemented

currently, it's just a patch for libavformat/audio.c.  should it be a
different file, or are #ifdefs OK?

the patch is here:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg/patches/patch-ag?rev=1.1

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