[Kwintv] V4L plugin status
George Staikos
kwintv@mail.kde.org
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 03:19:07 -0400
The V4L plugin is coming along nicely. The status is as follows:
- Default method: use overlay if possible, else fall back to grab+display with
Xv (hardcoded - will change)
- Grab + Display - should work with minor bugs.
- Overlay should work in NTSC, PAL, SECAM. Audio should work basically.
- Overlay does not have any clipping support yet, leaves artifacts all over,
and only captures at max res (which is the wrong res for NTSC too)
- Overlay only supports displays using RGB32, RGB24, RGB565 or RGB555 at best.
I have only tested RGB565.
- Channel changing should work fine.
- Grabbing works in mmap mode if possible, otherwise falls back to read().
This means it should work with web cams and video.
- Grab+Display is hardcoded to YUV right now.
- Xinerama support needs some work.
How to test:
- build and install qtvision (latest version!)
- cd qtvision/plugins/video/v4l/
- make install
Test reports (keeping in mind that the code is incomplete) are appreciated.
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George Staikos