Re: [V4l2-library] Alternative idea: make a library

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Thierry Merle wrote:

Hans de Goede had the great idea to make something like we can find for arts, a library that traps open/close/ioctl and mmap calls, see his last message about it: http://marc.info/?l=linux-video&m=121296318123763&w=2

Hi Thierry,

I liked Hans idea. Yet, I would offer two alternatives: 1) the LD_PRELOAD helper application; 2) a normal c library with the de-compressing algorithms.

The c library seems nice to app developers that want to insert V4L decompressing algorithms, without the need of an external helper application. There's no need for any special kernel support for such library.

Just my $2 cents.

Cheers, Mauro.