[gephex-devel] miniDV over firewire input

[Martin Bayer]

Hi Urs,

> is somebody planning or working on a module which
> implements the libdc1394 for firewire dv videocameras (because
> they are not compatible or supported to the v4l system...)
> on linux?

The only developer i know of with access to a fw dv device is sven.

> I tried to get my miniDV-Cam running, but didn't
> succeed, so I'm planning to write a module if there are
> no other solutions around...

In the long term we should integrate the driver in a more general
stream_input module.

Georg and i had the idea of changing the type of the camera/input
selection parameter from number to string and use some kind of url
syntax to select the input stream:

examples

hardware input: webcam, framegrabber, dv device
"v4l:/dev/video0"
"v4l2:/dev/video1"
"ds:/..." (direct show)

and a default url for the first hardware device like:

"default" or "default-input"

local applications: ipc with pipes or shared memory
y4m:/tmp/stream1.yuv (yuv4mpeg)

network streams: ogg/theora via icecast, local broadcast or muticast
(like veejay)

ice://stream.gephex.org/stream1.ogg
veejay://...

blue sky dreams by
Martin
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