On 27 Feb 2003, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Isn't the fact that drivers provide backwards compatibility one of the > very reason why application developers aren't in a hurry to provide v4l2 > with proper JPEG decoding support in their applications? > > Applications are currently just slow in following these new things, > unfortunately... So yeah, you have a point (unfortunately). I'm running into a similar situation with our project (IvyTV[1] http://ivtv.sourceforge.net). We probably won't be "kernel quality" for awhile so we should have the "luxury" of starting out as V4L2 only. I asked on our dev list what frameworks the app people wanted, and mostly, I got back "Don't worry, we'll write a custom plugin..." Yipe! What's the point of the API frameworks if nobody wants to use them? I still plan on providing a V4L2 interface[2] but this does worry me. BTW, has anybody been able to gen the (recently updated) api docs as a pdf? John [1] CX23415/iTVC15 hardware MPEG codec Driver (Hauppauge pvr250/350) [2] If somebody wishes to work on a DVB interface, by all means, please do.
