Linux Plumbers Conf 2009

Excerpt

Description

Last year Brandon presented on the need for a video4linux server and some details on how it might be done. This session will build on that initial discussion and will include details and research done by Hans and Brandon about specific approaches over the coming months before the conference.

Tags

video4linux, server, v4l, libv4l

Speakers

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  Hans de Goede

  Fedora
  • Website: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/

  Biography

  I’ve been a FOSS developer for 10+ years. I started writing
  kernel drivers when I got a motherboard with an unsupported
  hardware monititoring IC (The Abit ųGuru).

  End 2007 I wanted to do something for the greater good of Linux,
  I decided to start working on webcam compatibility as many webcams
  did have drivers floating around, but of mixed quality and most
  where outside the mainline tree because they did decompression
  of various cam specific format inside the kernel which was not
  acceptable in the mainline kernel.

  So I started working on getting drivers into the mainline kernel,
  for which I soon joined forces with Jean-Francois Moine, who was at that time porting the usb webcam driver framework gspca to v4l2
  and cleaning it up for the mainline kernel, and started rewriting existing drivers using that framework.

  I’m probably best known in v4l land for libv4l, the userspace library I wrote to more or less transparently handle the decompression of many proprietary webcam video formats in userspace, fixing the decompression part of the problem.

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  Brandon Philips

  Novell
  • Website: http://ifup.org/

  Biography

  Brandon is a Kernel developer at Novell/SuSE Labs. He has presented at several technical conferences in the past including FreedomHEC Taipei, Linux Plumbers Conf and Ignite Portland 2 . In his spare time he tinkers with electronics and software, bikes, hikes and builds robots. For more information checkout his site.