Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] [PATCH] Better integration with Video4Linux for PWLIB

[Chris Rankin <rankincj yahoo com>]

 --- "Nemosoft Unv." <nemosoft smcc demon nl> wrote:
> If I may? First off, I think it's a bad idea to put
> too much camera specific code in your program.
> Second, if you do it, try to do it in the most
> general way possible. The QuickCam is using my PWC
> driver, and although I admit that driver is slightly
> "broken" in this case, your code should then work on
> all PWC supported cams, since they all suffer from
> the same problem, in which case I'm happy to point
> you to my API document on 
> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/api.html
> which includes a PWC detection routine. 

So "camera-specific" code is a Bad Thing, but
"driver-specific" code is a "Good Thing"? I'm sorry, I
don't understand that one. I thought that the whole
point of V4L was to allow applications to be
blissfully ignorant of the underlying hardware.

Chris


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