Re: [wxCode-users] Compiling wxvidcap

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 5/3/07, Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...> wrote:
> At 3-5-2007 15:31, John Labenski wrote:
> >> Is it portable to linux also?if it is portable,which driver is used?
> >
> > No, there is code for V4L2, but it is not nearly complete. It kinda'
> > works for one particular usb camera I have, but for any other camera
> > conversion routines must be written to convert from their format to
> > 32bit RGB for wxImages. I do not plan to spend any time on it in the
> > near future.
>
> For Dorgem3 (that completely relies on wxVidCap) I have an alpha version
> for Win32 that does some basic jobs. I will try to compile it on my
> Ubuntu Linux and see how far I come with wxVidCap and my Q-Tec camera.
> Linux is quite new to me, so it will take some time to get it compiled.
> And I use the wxImage functions so there still is work to be done.

I should mention that you'll probably notice that there is a base
class that tries to encapsulate the common functions of VFW and V4L2.
Since I never really got V4L2 ironed out some things might not make
sense since I'm sure that some reorganization is necessary.

Regards,
    John Labenski