On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > That's right, but if four applications open the device at the same time, thet > will all request 32 buffers and not 8 as they don't know about each other. But can't the user can just tell them to request 8? > > For mmap capture, it may not be hard to add this in a backward compatible > > manner. But no software supports this. From a point of view of a hardware > > manufacture or user, it's a huge drawback if your hardware time domain > > multiplexing doesn't work with nvrec, motion, mencoder, and so on. > > Why would you want to encode from a single time multiplexed stream ? I doubt > MPEG encoding would achieve outstanding results if 4 video inputs are > multiplexed into the stream. And all existing software will work with the That's not what I meant. If you have a single device with four TDM inputs, you would probably want to run four instances of mencoder on the device, each one to encode a single input stream. The thing is, mencoder is setup to encode a single stream, not four streams.
