[Mplayer-advusers] New standards

[Jiří Svoboda]

Hi,
> 
> > > Indeed, to implement useful standard we need in 
> volunteers currently 
> > > I know only two drivers: mga_vid and radeon_vid. But if 
> someone who 
> > > has video wil write such driver - we'll be able to implement 
> > > something like ALVA (Advanced Linux Video Architecture).
> > 
> > Did you ever ask someone from the other player projects
> > like vlc, ogle or xine ? I'm sure they are interessted too. 
> And if we 
> > build a standard, we should do it together.
> > 
> Currently I know too much different drivers:
> marvel.sf.net - direct DVD support and MPEG2 decoding on 
> Matrox (announced at least) linuxvideo.org - mga_vid + 
> mgadvd(old) mplayer - another mga_vid + radeon_vid 
> linuxconsole at sf.net - here is fbvid.h which was ignored by 
> kernel mantainers

Look also at marvel (mga+rrg) drivers. There is mga_vid ported to v4l
interface - so why not use v4l for this.
Maybe it would be better to extend existing v4l interface and not create
new one.
At least those drivers are working for TV/video capture (so there should
be update in FAQ).
It also contains stuff for mgadvd module.

Look at: http://marvel.sourceforge.net/

			JS