FB, video, FOURCC code (was: The future of framebuffer)

[Romain D. <do...@ir...>]

Nick Kurshev wrote:

> As I've found - mplayer knows much more video image formats:
> 
> file main/libvo2/img_format.h

Yes, FOURCC code. You're not the first one to mention them...

The problem is, there's a bunch of them (see
<http://www.webartz.com/fourcc/>, for those who don't know
them), and advertising them isn't easy...

Still, I guess I should use them ; I think I could add
a 'number of FOURCC supported' field in the
"struct fb_vidoverlay_avail", and add (yet) another
ioctl to get only the variable-length FOURCC list.

BTW, what do the linux-console folks think of adding
video overlay support to Ruby ?

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