Bug#707905: mjpeg missing shared lib for capturing video

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 mjpegtools: please port lavrec to V4L2 or build with libv4l-dev
Control: tags -1 = upstream

Please keep the bug in CC.

On 2013-05-20 09:08:59, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> should users like me stay in oldstable and deprecated release?, i'm using
> the zoran 36125 model capture video card with module from Pauline Middelink
> with pachet 2.6.20 kernel ownbuild in squeeze (alog the original 2.6.32, i
> alternate boot when go to use device)
> 
> > So if I understand you correctly, liblavrec should be built and shipped
> > in a package? Is this correct?
> 
> yes, due the real usage of mjpegtools its grabbing images from frammebuffer
> devices
> 
> 
> > Is anything broken because liblavrec is
> > not shipped? If that's not the case, this sounds like a wishlist bug for
> > me.
> >
> from view of point of current modernd software, its a wishlist, but from
> the real concept of mjpegtools software, its import6ant, due  real usage of
> mjpegtools its grabbing images from frammebuffer devices , i upgrade from
> debian squeeze to wheeze and i not have those capabilities now when i using
> the sid provides package from unstalbe
> 
> by u response, seem that this could'n be possible, search and reading i
> note the intensive use of v4l 1 api in mjpegtools
> 
> the zoran and matrox mayor good devices not have moder modules in 3.X
> recent kernels using 4vl2 api..

I'm sorry to hear that. However, mjpegtools entered the archive during
the wheezy freeze so was never part of any Debian release. That also
means that liblavrec was never built and the bug isn't an regression
from a previous version in the archive.

So I'm lowering the serverity accordingly and retitle the bug to reflect
the state of this bug, i.e that liblavrec needs to be ported to the
V4L2 API.

There is a thread at [1] containing some work on a port to V4L2. And
then there is also a patch at [2] using liv4l1 to access V4L2 devices.

Regards

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27540662
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/mjpeg/patches/48/
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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