BSD video capture emulation question

[Mark Dixon]

Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

> 	AFAICS what's needed is someone with some insight into what makes
> a good video API if FreeBSD is ever going to get one. The innards of
> things like ffmpeg and transcode are probably worth looking at as models.

A reasonably recent multimedia API would be Sun's Java Media Framework - 
available at 
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/guide/JMFTOC.html

 From a high design perspective, for the higher level parts of a 
multimedia API, IMHO its pretty good.

Mark