[Kwintv] Comments on latest qtvision

[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

On Friday 25 October 2002 01:04, George Staikos wrote:
> 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.

I would also note, that here it uses more than 30% CPU, and I dont have much 
worse cpu than you (1.2GHz athlon).

Regards
Zsolt