On Tuesday 25 April 2017 14:28:20 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Tue 2017-04-25 13:30:09, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 April 2017 13:23:30 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > On Tue 2017-04-25 10:08:15, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 25 April 2017 10:05:38 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > > It would be nice if more than one application could be accessing the > > > > > > > camera at the same time... (I.e. something graphical running preview > > > > > > > then using command line tool to grab a picture.) This one is > > > > > > > definitely not solveable inside a library... > > > > > > > > > > > > Someone once suggested to have something like pulseaudio for V4L. > > > > > > For such usage, a server would be interesting. Yet, I would code it > > > > > > in a way that applications using libv4l will talk with such daemon > > > > > > in a transparent way. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, we need something like pulseaudio for V4L. And yes, we should > > > > > make it transparent for applications using libv4l. > > > > > > > > IIRC there is already some effort in writing such "video" server which > > > > would support accessing more application into webcam video, like > > > > pulseaudio server for accessing more applications to microphone input. > > > > > > Do you have project name / url / something? > > > > Pinos (renamed from PulseVideo) > > > > https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/06/30/introducing-pulse-video/ > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~wtay/pinos/ > > > > But from git history it looks like it is probably dead now... > > Actually, last commit is an hour ago on "work" branch. Seems alive to > me ;-). Great! I just (blindly) looked at master branch and it is old... > Thanks for pointer... > Pavel -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
