[mythtv] Moving V4L out of NuppelVideoRecorder?

Nigel Pearson nigel at ind.tansu.com.au
Sun Jan 30 23:59:46 EST 2005


> ...
> I want to create a VideoSource class, and then move all of the V4L 
> specific code to a V4LVideoSource subclass.  That would allow someone 
> else to implement the Mac recording as another sublcass of 
> VideoSource.  One question I have is how to implement V4L2.  Should it 
> be part of the V4L class, since it will be substantially the same 
> except for using slightly different ioctls, or should it be a separate 
> class, since it would clutter up the V4L class with "if (using-v4l2)"?

	I think a separate V4L2 class, but since there may be a lot of
commonality between them, either have a common VideoForLinuxBase,
or have V4L2 inherit from V4L1 and override as necessary.


> ... Can anyone think of a better name than VideoSource

	VideoCapture? VideoGrabber? VideoFeed? VideoStream?
Kinestat? BlackBoxThatMagicallyProvidesMovingPictures?

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