>"Nemosoft Unv." wrote: >> In case you´re interested... I´ve written up my idea on how an >> (expandable) >> shared library should look like. The URL is >> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/ccvt/ On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ben Bridgwater <bennyb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually I've already implemented such a beast. I have no objection to > GPLing it > (that was my general intent), other than the fact that I'm too lazy to > create a > web page or put much effort into support. You've shamed me - I'll > release it. Anybody heard anything about Ben's library? I didn't find a link to his library on V4L list archives nor with Google, and his mail address bounced. I'm planning such a library myself, too, and I'm collecting some ideas to begin with. I think such a library would be really useful, and I'm quite amazed that nobody has written such a thing yet (but let me know if I have just missed it). What I have in mind is not just conversion library, but also general video processing library containing data sources (audio, video, from V4L, file, network, ...), format conversions (from anything to anything, including all kind of compressed formats, Divx, Quicktime, ...), data sink (file, Xvideo, network), effects (equalize..) and so on. Maybe something like Ultimedia http://aixdoc.physik.uni-augsburg.de/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/ultimdia/ultiusgd/topnav.htm or DirectShow (but I still need to study them before drafting a new API). (I find the quote below rather funny [or scaring], considering that currently I'm uncompressing MJPEG in kernel...so, by writing this library I'm just trying to save my life) -- | Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@xxxxxxxxxx> [OpenPGP public key | Homepage: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ available] | M.Sc. Researcher, Dept of El & Inf Eng, University of Oulu | "You will be shot if you try to do | format conversion in kernel" -Pavel Machek, 2001 +-----------------------------------------------------------
