Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:00:58 -0400 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:56:05PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > proprietary format. This way, an userspace app may use the userspace > library as a "fallback method" for unknown FOURCC formats. The result > will be probably far away from an optimal result on some cases (since it > probably mean double buffering), but this will at least allow userspace > apps to work. As performance become an issue, the userspace app > developer may use the GPL code at userspace API as a reference to write > a proper optimized format driver for its apps.
You can dynamically load libraries based on constructed path names which means you can write a simple library for media conversions which in turn will try and open libv4l-format-ABCD.so for any format it doesn't know - and thus is extensible
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