Re: [xine-devel] V4L patch, attached patch against xine-lib-beta12

[Jeroen A. <j.a...@it...>]

Miguel Freitas wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 03:47, Jeroen Asselman wrote:
> > James Stembridge wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Monday 16 Jun 2003 08:17, Jeroen Asselman wrote:
> > > > The patch includes a modified demux_yuv_frames.c, an heavily modified
> > > > input_v4l.c, an pcm.c 'decoder'. And a small fix in the realaudio
> > > > demuxer, because the mimetypes missed a ';'.
> > >
> > > Is it not possible to use the existing linear pcm decoder rather than adding
> > > another one?
> >
> > Tried it, but that didn't work. Of course I could have done something wrong.
>
> allow me to say you probably did something wrong... :)

Well....

> i don't think we need another lpcm "decoder" at all. following are some
> hints that come to my mind in order to use the existing lpcm decoder:
>
> - you must set the type to either BUF_AUDIO_LPCM_BE or
> BUF_AUDIO_LPCM_LE. since you are reading from alsa/oss i think it will
> always be machine endianness so just set the type to reflect that.

I did set these.

> - don't forget to pass a BUF_FLAG_HEADER before sending any data. see
> lpcm source if you have any doubt on how config is set.

But I didn't set those. Didn't actually now I would need to do that. Unfortunately,
I won't be given anymore time to work on this from my boss, so I don't expect that I
can figure this out and/or implement it soon. And my spare time goes to another
project for the moment.

-- Jeroen

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