[vlc] Re: mini howto for low level frame grabber...

[Gildas Bazin]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:52, jonathan dumaresq wrote:
> no the frame grabber is a 6 video input and it's not directly support in
> windows. So I have to write something to make this work.
> 
> so is why I want to know if I only write a module will do the job ?
> 
> To compile vlc under cygwin is very painful !
> 
> 3 days now I try to compile vlc...
> 

Even though you could just compile a plugin, I'd advise you to compile the 
whole vlc as well. It will be much easier to test things or debug.

Compiling vlc under cygwin shouldn't be painful, but a recent package in 
cygwin (w32api) broke some stuff in vlc (it typedefs ssize_t whereas it 
didn't use to do it before). All this has been fixed so you should be able 
to compile a cvs version of vlc just fine (or use a daily snapshot 
tarball).

As for your input plugin, I would advise you to look at the direct show 
plugin (modules/access/dshow), the Video4Linux plugin (modules/access/v4l) 
and the file access plugin (modules/access/file.c). That should provide you 
with a good start.

--
Gildas

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