Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac3

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 15:10, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> The corner case are the vendor-specific compressions.  IMHO it doesn't
> make much sense to attempt to implement every strange format some
> engineer invented in every v4l2 application.  Especially if there is
> no free implementation of it (which is the reason the non-gpl pwcx
> module was created IIRC).

The pwc formats look like they can be done a lot faster in MMX, which
argues for some format of user space exposure and a set of format idents
for "vendor foo, protocol 0" etc

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