On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:14:00PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> Hi Luc,
>
> Yes but there are references to *RomTable, pwc_dec23_decompress or
> things like that.
Ok, but anyone can modify the driver in the kernel and submit a cleanup of
the driver. Two weeks ago, i've resync my driver with the kernel driver.
*RomTable can be removed if the decompressor is not in the kernel.
> But the current kernel doesn't support compressed format, isn't it ?
As the pwc driver in the kernel doesn't support v4l2, it can't support
compressed stream.
> So the userspace application should be able to use the uncompressed
> stuff and it won't change anything.
yes but only 320x240 and some framerates.
> Yes the users still need your driver with the decompressor, but it will
> allow people to use external decompressor as soon as there is a library
> or application that support it and not need to wait the next kernel
> release and that their distribution support this kernel.
If the decompressor is not in the kernel. You need to change every
application. It takes already a lot of times to add some new codec to ekiga,
that chaging mplayer, xawtv, amsn (because someone want to have a better
support ....), ...
I would prefer to send a patch to the kernel with the decompressor and with
the RAW stream export, and when v4l1 will be removed from the kernel, i'll
remove the decompressor from the driver.
Luc
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