Announcing a new F-10 Feature Proposal: Better Webcam Support

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
> > See:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
> 
> Any reason a shim library is simpler than porting apps to V4L2?

Same question here. There's a good number of applications that are
either obsoleted by a v4l2 version, or support both versions. Which
applications were you thinking of supporting with this scheme?

Unless there's tens of open source apps that would need changing, or a
couple of (useful) proprietary ones that don't support v4l2, the library
is probably not very useful to have (especially as you probably wouldn't
be able to port _all_ the v4l1 drivers to v4l2).

You might also want to see what can be done to remove GStreamer's V4L2
plugin's experimental status:
http://tinyurl.com/4ft7ej

Cheers