[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] add libV4L compatibility for webcam support in kernel 2.6.27

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:54:30PM +0100, jp.guillemin wrote:
> Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:34:12 +0100
> > "jp.guillemin" <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> Please find attached my patch for Webcam support through libV4L
> >> starting with kernel 2.6.27.
> >   
> > On the other hand, porting Bayer and SPCA decoders to libavcodec
> > would be surely welcome. Libv4lconvert is LGPL, so it shouldn't be such
> > a difficult goal.
> >   
> For the long term, this is the best solution, but the user base needs 
> one now :)

What long term are you talking about?  How hard can it be to port a
codec to FFmpeg if you have already written the code?

Diego