[vlc] Re: DEVICE PROPERTIES NEEDED IN THE GUI

[Gildas Bazin]

On Sunday 03 October 2004 15:44, Mark wrote:
> Every other program has the device driver, source and format as options in
> the video button of the GUI but not VLC. This makes it impossible to use
> many TV tuner cards as the devices always default to tuner even though the
> composite has been chosen. The pop up function of the device properties 
has
> been a disaster for VLC and TV tuner cards for those people that want to 
use
> the composite input for these cards. I just can't understand why the VLC 
is
> written this way. This appears to be a very simple thing to do as EVERY
> OTHER PROGRAM EVER WRITTEN APPEARS TO HAVE THESE OPTINS IN THE GUI and you
> can use their programs to steam composit input from TV capture cards. Does
> someone have a work around solution for this problem as I don't want to 
use
> other software, I want to use the VLC.
> Mark Lee.
> 

The reason for this is very simple. The directshow input in VLC was written 
with the help of the only video capture device I own... a simple 10 bucks 
webcam. Which means I just can't implement/test stuff like this.

Patches are of course always welcome.

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Gildas

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