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

[Hans de Goede]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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).
> 

See my reaction to Bill's question, and yes there are a few usefull proprietary 
apps in the mix unfortunately.

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

That definitely the plan as I want cheese to be working 100% out of the box.

Regards,

Hans