[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] v4l2: Old or cheap cams will _not_ accept parms query or modification. ioctl(VIDIOC_G_PARM) or ioctl(VIDIOC_S_PARM)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 09:51:35PM -0300, Lucas F. Ottaviano wrote:
> Hello! I think you should not ignore this, if you want ffmpeg to be as
> universally accessible as possible...
> It's a shame that because of this simplicity some users will not be able to
> use ffmpeg or ffplay.
> 
> + Some old or cheap cams will _not_ accept to set or get paramaters,
>    so returning an error when this is not possible is not good.

There are some problems in the patch
simply ignoring the error would end up with a random timebase

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