[Kwintv] V4L plugin status

[Josh Sheedy]

Not that important of a question, but how or will RandR affect the
plugins for KwinTV?  Will it make is easier or harder, or not have any
affect at all?  Personally, I know that I am glad that the Xserver will
finally have it.

Josh


On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:06, George Staikos wrote:
> On October 23, 2002 13:58, Stefan Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 02:48, George Staikos wrote:
> > >     Actually FYI, I had some severe problems in the code which I
> > > optimised away tonight.  CPU usage dropped from 60+% to 10% for the
> > > grabber thread on my machine. [...]
> >
> > Yes, it looks much better now :-). Maybe it also helped that I did a fresh
> > configure & compile this time?... Anyways, it is working quite well.
> > Scrolling text still has some "interlacing" problems but audio and video
> > are now in sync and QtVision does not take up that much CPU time anymore.
> > Good job! :-)
> >
> > I will append my xdpyinfo output nevertheless (yes, I know, I should
> > upgrade my X server... :-). My display is an 18" LCD, BTW, but I don't
> > think this makes any difference... I will also append a short section of
> > my QtVision console output because I get a warning message about QtVision
> > and kv4lsetup not agreeing on display depth. kv4lsetup is setuid root on
> > my system but it is a very old version..
> 
>    Great.  I look forward to seeing you test overlay mode. :)  You have a 
> 24bpp display and already encounter kv4lsetup problems.  It can't get much 
> better. :)  The old kv4lsetup is ok because it hasn't changed since then.  
> When it does change, I will add it into the build.
> 
>    The interlacing problem is probably far worse for you because of the LCD 
> display.   I do intend to add deinterlacing code eventually, but not until 
> the current plugins are done and fully working.
> 
> -- 
> 
> George Staikos
> 
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