On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Neuer User <auslands...@gmx.de> wrote: > If it is not possible to have two applications access the same video > stream, that is pretty detrimentical to quite a lot of use cases, e.g.: > > a.) Use motion to detect motion and record video. At the same time view > the camera output on the screen. > > b.) Stream a webcam output over the net and at the same time view it on > the screen.
FWIW: usually when people ask for this sort of functionality (performing multiple functions on the same stream), they will typically use frameworks like gstreamer, which allow for creation of pipelines to perform the sorts of use cases you have described. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
