[GEM-dev] pix-video again

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Studio Zodiak wrote:

> I am trying to get my DV camera to work with pix_video under linux. I 
> have to use Ubuntu. I have tried different fixes I have seen on this 
> list like commenting out code in pix_videoNEW and the like.

I tried to port [pix_video] to GridFlow [#in dv1394], but found out that I 
had to change a bunch of #defines that now have an extra "IOC_" in the 
name, and then it froze my computer twice in a row. I could try to fix the 
code, at the cost of rebooting every 10 minutes, but I'd rather not use a 
driver so brittle. Then I learned that this driver is not maintained 
anymore and that a user-space equivalent exists, based on libraw1394.

Next time that I try working on DV support for GF I'll try going through 
libraw1394, and if it works, then we could sit together to retranslate it 
into GEM, if using [#export_pix] is not sufficient.

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