Bug#511736: vlc: Missing support for V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8

[Romain Beauxis]

Le Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:17:24, vous avez écrit :
> > Shouldn't this be fixed through the libv4l support ?
>
> You mean by making vlc use libv4l instead of having its own v4l
> access module? unstable's libv4l seems to include support for
> V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8 indeed.

Yes.
VLC could continue to use its current V4L access module. It will ask for one 
of the format it recognizes. If at some point a device cannot deliver frames 
in this format, the libv4l will silently convert from a supported format of 
the device to the required format.

Then, when updating v4l's API, one only need to update and upgrade libv4l in 
order to support the new API in all application using the library.

Patches for enabling libv4l in VLC are available in libv4l's upstream code. It 
would be a very good thing if VLC could make use of it, either in debian or 
upstream.


Romain