On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:56:05PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > proprietary format. This way, an userspace app may use the userspace > library as a "fallback method" for unknown FOURCC formats. The result > will be probably far away from an optimal result on some cases (since it > probably mean double buffering), but this will at least allow userspace > apps to work. As performance become an issue, the userspace app > developer may use the GPL code at userspace API as a reference to write > a proper optimized format driver for its apps.
You can dynamically load libraries based on constructed path names which means you can write a simple library for media conversions which in turn will try and open libv4l-format-ABCD.so for any format it doesn't know - and thus is extensible - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/