On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 22:17 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> >>> Bastien Nocera wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: >>>>>> >>>>>> See: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport >>>>> >>>>> Any reason a shim library is simpler than porting apps to V4L2? >>>> >>>> Same question here. There's a good number of applications that are >>>> either obsoleted by a v4l2 version, or support both versions. Which >>>> applications were you thinking of supporting with this scheme? >>>> >>>> Unless there's tens of open source apps that would need changing, or a >>>> couple of (useful) proprietary ones that don't support v4l2, the library >>>> is probably not very useful to have (especially as you probably wouldn't >>>> be able to port _all_ the v4l1 drivers to v4l2). >>>> >>> See my reaction to Bill's question, and yes there are a few usefull >>> proprietary apps in the mix unfortunately. >> >> Do you have a list of those apps? Both the proprietary ones and the Open >> Source ones. For the latter, it could be more interesting to create a >> guide for the conversion from V4L1 to V4L2, and see whether Fedora >> maintainers of those projects can help out with the conversion, or at >> least submit it upstream for consideration. >> > > No list atm, noteworthy closed source ones are flash (adobe version) and > skype. Opensource v4l1 viewers I know about are camomara, spcaview. But > quite a few v4l2 apps also don't work with all v4l2 cams due to not > supporting all needed colorformats, examples of these are for example xawtv > and luvcview. > > I must say my primary focus at the moment is getting drivers cleaned up and > merged in the mainline, but the userspace side of things definetely needs > work too. > > Regards, > > Hans Is there something that Fedora users with few webcams that aren't recognised under Fedora because of non-existing drivers can do to help? Is there some way that we can give you feedback about webcams we have so that they get supported? I know that that is a lame question but I had to ask it. Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
