[AG-TECH] Re: AG video node using berkley mjpeg work

[Lloyd Lim]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 07:25 am, Bob Riddle wrote:
>
>[...]  Also, it starts vic with a user
>script file "-u /tmp/vic-startup.0" which doesn't seem to hang around
>long enough for me to peek at it.  Anybody know what this script looks
>like?

This would explain why someone was asking for this option.  Can an AG 
person explain what this is used for?

Even if we added this capability, you'd probably have to rewrite the 
startup script because Mash internals are not identical to UCL 
internals.  It's probably better to let us know what you want so we 
could implement it as one or more command-line options.

>Anyway, Matthew indicates in his mjpeg pages that vic can be built
> using the lml33 mjpeg drive.  In fact, Larry Rowe had sent a note
> some time ago indicating this might be included in future openmash
> "releases".  So my current thought is to try and get a linux version
> of the openmash vic slide in place on the AG linux video capture
> machine and see if it resolves the startup issue by using more
> "normal" AG video capture software.

I'm not sure if Matt was talking about encoding or decoding in that 
reference.  Matt is really the only person that would/could add this 
capability to Mash.

I'd love to see LML33 hardware decoding in vic.

Lloyd