On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: >> I'm not pushing qc-usb for inclusion into kernel (and even less >> qce-ga) because it does format conversions which isn't allowed. But >> without that we wouldn't have application support. > Are you trying to help applications support for the camera's native >format? Applications, no, user space libraries, yes, when I have time. But right now I don't, hopefully later. > By your tone it sounds like you're annoyed. I thought the idea was to The situation (=no standard libraries) is a bit annoying, but there are people (at least Gstreamer) doing work which should improve it. But I didn't meant to sound like annoyed (just explain that it doesn't look likely the cam gets into kernel anytime soon). >move towards decoder libraries for applications though, rather than >having every webcam driver do expensive format versions in kernel space. >How far are we from this goal, are we moving at all? Hmm, I think it depends who you ask (whether he likes Gstreamer or not). I'm not taking much position yet, I must first get acquainted with it.
