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

[jonathan dumaresq]

What package Exactly I nned to compile the complete VLC.

1- cygwin last version
2- Last VLC daily snapShot
3- What else ?

thanx

jonathan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gildas Bazin" <gbazin at netcourrier.com>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: [vlc] Re: mini howto for low level frame grabber...


> 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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