[GEM-dev] V4L2 and question about pix_video"NEW"

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

B. Bogart wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> So now I would very much like to be able to use two of my video capture
> devices to work in Gem.
> 
> Right now only the wintv works fine, though a little buggy, but I can't
> get anything out of the cx878 boards.
> 
> xawtv works on both cards equally.
> 
> I have a hunch this may be due to an imcompatibility with the v4l
> wrapper v4l_compat around v4l2 drivers. (I'm using 2.6.13-ck5)
> 
> How about pix_video using v4l2 proper rather than v4l?
> 

as you might have noticed, there is already a videoV4L2.{cpp,h} in 
src/Pixes (CVS).
in theory, you would just need (for testing), modify the pix_videoNEW to 
use videoV4L2 instead of videoV4L.
it would be great if you could do some testing and report back. (i am 
not entirely sure whether it works flawlessly)

a related question: i would like to rename pix_video.{cpp,h} to 
pix_videoOS.{cpp,h} and pix_videoNEW.{cpp,h} to pix_video.{cpp,h}.
i think this makes most sense: "NEW" is not new any more and it makes 
the other implementation look so "old"; and it would better refelct the 
file<->object relation. (probably it would be best to change the 
video-objects for w32 and osX to the non OS-dependent version too, as 
this would probably allow to make a consistant object interface for all 
platforms.
any objections to renaming the files?

mfg.a.sdr
IOhannes