hallo all
l’m interested in implemanting a graphics driver for a wintv card (hauppauge). the problem is l’m new in QNX ( QNX 6.1) and l’m having problems with the whole thing of
gddk environment. l used the undocumented get-cvs-src command, and everything got checked out in my current dir. The problem now is how do l get started. everything
seems to be scattered all over, and from the helpviewer l only get information about debugging a graphics can you please give me a step by step explanation, without
so much assumptions being made. any links to some usefull WWW will be greatly appreciated.
masuku
Bongani Masuku <bmasuku@hotmail.com> wrote:
hallo all
l’m interested in implemanting a graphics driver for a wintv card
(hauppauge). the problem is l’m new in QNX ( QNX 6.1) and l’m
having problems with the whole thing of gddk environment. l used
the undocumented get-cvs-src command, and everything got checked
out in my current dir. The problem now is how do l get started.
everything seems to be scattered all over, and from the helpviewer
l only get information about debugging a graphics can you please
give me a step by step explanation, without so much assumptions
being made. any links to some usefull WWW will be greatly appreciated.
Currently, the Graphics DDK only support video capture when the capture
device is built into the graphics adapter, (like the ATI all-in-wonder).
There currently exists no specific driver framework to support a
standalone capture device (although one is in development).
You would need to write a full resource manager type driver, (although
you might find name_open()/name_attach() to be sufficient).
Alternately, you could just write a library of routines to drive
the wintv card, and link your app with them; the only drawback being
that the app will have to run with root privileges.
So basically the Graphics DDK is a red herring for what you are
trying to accomplish.
Dave