[fpc-pascal] Video4Linux access

James Buren ryuo at frugalware.org
Wed Oct 14 15:36:37 CEST 2009


> Hi Everybody,
>
> I need video4linux support for my new project. I tried vfp unit
> I found in the contribute units website.
> But it seems very outdated. Itried all things menitioned in the
> forum, but I'm not able to get the things up. the code  is hard
> to read and I found not one comment line :(
> Thanks for the hard work, but with some comments i possibly
> would be able to fix broken stuff.
>
> Is there an alternative way to use video4linux ?
>

You could look into the native C API source code, see how its used, and
write a FP binding yourself, perhaps with a C wrapper to boot? I know
mplayer uses it as one of its input drivers. You could take a look around
there to get an idea of how it works.

> Thanks a lot and please use comments ;)
>
> Hartmut
>
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