Re: [libdv-dev] RE: Streaming DV

[James B. <ja...@ex...>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> James,
>    Would it be possible to share more of the technical details of your
> accomplishments? One of my machines has XFree86 4.0 installed with 2D and 3D
> accelerations for a GeForce card. Unfortunately, when I recompiled the
> kernel for 1394 support, the GeForce driver complained about not being
> installed correctly and RPM didn't want to reinstall. I haven't gotten back
> to trying to fix that one yet.
> 
>    Is the code you did something that is specific to the graphics cards you
> are using, or could it be extended in some way to a general PC graphics
> card? (Assuming some baseline capabilities...
> 
>    My experience here says that showing folks 30FPS live video gets them
> excited about putting resources in to some projects

OK, I just did the initial import of "dviola", which - someday -  will
be a native DV nonlinear editing app.  The part you'll probably want to
see is "dvplay", a simple DV player.

There's a README in the source tree.  libdv is required.  Because dviola
and dvplay only accept input from files, 1394 support is not required.

http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=6661

Caveats: Only 16-bit visuals are supported; the window is half size
(320x240); NTSC DV only; 30fps on PII-450 (probably); only tested on
Voodoo3 and Matrox Millenium xservers; no audio.

I'd appreciate any reports of success/failure/performance... thanks...

-- 
James Bowman
ja...@ex...