[GEM-dev] VideoIO Framework

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> i have forgotten the v4l1 and v4l2 stuff in my enumeration of "stream 
> readers", most likely because this was just to obvious.

I don't think that it was obvious. E.g. the objects for handling movie 
files, web streaming, cameras, are all different classes, and actually, 
there are more classes than that (even just reading movie files is 
involving several different classes)

> typing to only mention firewire

Did you mention firewire? (oops. have I skipped over that word?)

> i don't thing that "random access writers" do make much sense.

for uncompressed data, it's rather easy, but it's not that often useful.

> no assumptions about the interfaces accessed via this framework should 
> be made (hardware, software, web,...)

Some assumptions have to be made, because any piece of code embodies 
assumptions... any piece of code *is* an embodiment of assumptions.

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