On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Alex Deucher<alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Michael Krufky<mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Mauro, >> >> Please pull from: >> >> http://kernellabs.com/hg/~mkrufky/cx23885 >> >> for the following fixes: >> >> - cx23885: Enable mplayer pvr:// usage > > I'm not too familiar with mplayer's v4l support, but why not fix > mplayer rather than adding a fake audio interface to the driver. > Wouldn't that potentially confuse users or other apps? Thats a good question, Alex. The answer, for now, is conformity amongst the v4l2 drivers. Mplayer has been around for a good long time, and any v4l2 mpeg encoder that doesnt do this is broken in the vraious userspace applications. I agree that we should fix userspace also -- but fix the kernel first, so that older userspace works as-is. This is needed for more than just mplayer -- mplayer is just the biggest, loudest, most obvious one for mention. Regards, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
