As someone who works for a chipmaker that supplies the guts to a lot of cameras, I've been following this discussion with some interest. A conversion library is a very good idea, but it would be even better if it had a plug-in architecture that different cameras could use. We produce a chipset that produces an mjpeg stream at 30 fps (VGA), and are nearing completion of a dual mode camera that also has such a stream. Currently we just use a viewer that does the decoding itself (via libjpeg). A library layer would allow any application to use the camera. This happens to be similar to what DirectVideo and VideoforWindows does, but that shouldn't be held against the idea. Other than that I think the main issue is how to control the camera. Our controls are not the same as Agilent's or Philips', and each has capabilities that the others don't. This might be addressed by a plugin application that has the proper features. Steve -- Steve Miller STMicroelectronics
