View source for Development: Discussion of Video4Linux API Version 3

Although probably some day analog television will became completely obsolete, the need for an analog video capture API (such as the [[Development:_Video4Linux_APIs|Video4Linux API)]] will live on, as there will still be several practical needs for such. Consequently, we need still plan for the development of future v4l APIs.

Here are a few thoughts about development on the next generation API:
# We should not split control over video and radio on /dev/video and /dev/radio. The main problem with it is in simultaneous work of multiple video/radio programs - actually we have single device and control over it should be collected in one place.
# Userspace program should be able to select cards and tuners and so on, no need to keep cards database in kernel.
# We probably need to provide some official user-space library with more intellectual and more natural programming interface (probably with the ability to support several operation systems)....a present discussion of such can be found [[V4L2UserspaceLibrary|here]].

Everyone is welcome to add comments and extend this list.