Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > This one. Havn't found time yet to look into this in detail (your > > mails still sitting in my inbox waiting ...). Basic idea is to make > > one of the reserved ints in v4l2_buffer a input number and add a new > > bit for the flags field to indicate that the new input field is used. > > To use the new feature apps must set the flag and fill the input field > > when queuing buffers via QBUF. That should be backward compatible > > What about overlay? Use "v4l2_buffer.memory = V4L2_MEMORY_OVERLAY" > Say someone wanted to start four instances of xawtv on > one device and have each overlay one of the time domain multiplexed channels > into a different window? That isn't going to work. It still must be a _single_ application which does streaming capture. it is just possible to attach input channels to buffers, so the driver can try to be a better job on input switching by doing that on the vblank irq for example. Gerd -- You have a new virus in /var/mail/kraxel
