GSOC Proposal: Webcams in Phonon

[Trever Fischer]

On Monday 29 March 2010 13:46:26 Trever Fischer wrote:
> Hi, I'm Trever Fischer (tdfischer on IRC, when my ISP permits). I'd like
> to work
> on getting webcam support into Phonon. I've read the description from the
> videolan wiki
> (http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2010#High-Level_Capture_API_for_Phonon_.28rea
> d:_Webcam_Support.29), and its really what I've been planning on doing for
> a while
> (http://wm161.net/2009/12/29/webcams-in-phonon/)
> but school got in the way. Doing GSOC in summer, I won't have 21 credit
> hours and running a good sized student organization pounding down on me :)
> 
> Between classes, I've been working on adding v4l2 support to xine with the
> new
> v4l2 plugin I wrote, and which is now in their mercurial repository. That
> gives
> me a working backend for my one good webcam, which doesn't support v4l1.
> 
> My proposal for adding video devices to phonon follows. Any comments or
> criticisms are welcome!
FYI, my proposal is up on the GSoC submission site in a format that is much 
easier on the eyes.
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