[Kwintv] Comments on latest qtvision

[George Staikos]

On October 24, 2002 18:50, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> >    The real question is, why would anyone want to use the same v4l device
> > from both v4l-direct and v4l-xv-bridge?  This is more for development
> > purposes. After that, the device will be either v4l or Xv, but not both.
>
> Yes you are right.
> Why I asked for this was that when you try to record under zapping it
> automatically changes to v4l mode, and you can easily switch back when you
> are done with it. (if I understand it correctly you can not do recording
> with xvideo).
> But then you know that the user wants to switch driver, so that case is
> different.

   Hmm.  Interesting.  I'll have to think about that.  However, V4L mode is 
almost as good as Xv mode for me.  It only uses 10% cpu which is acceptable.  
If we could improve on this, then we probably wouldn't need to worry too 
much.  I really hate to make special cases in the code for this.


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George Staikos