Re: [xine-user] video4linux input

[Gernot Z. <gz...@ly...>]

Hej !

> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 00:21, xin...@li...
> wrote:
> > Feature suggestion: can we get support for v4l input in xine?
>
>
> adding v4l support in xine is fairly easy, it just mean adding some sort
> of dummy input and demuxer plugins. however notice that it might show
> something not really desirable: due xine "pipeline" one will notice some
> delay between what the camera see and what the monitor shows.
Another problem is that many WinTV-cards only get up to their full power
if they are allowed to write directly to the framebuffer - that
circumvents the whole xine pipeline (but that's what xawtv does), and
could cause quite some trouble to implement ...

Servus,
  Gernot

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