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Several of the most active developers of V4L/DVB, together responsible for about 60% of the committed patches over the last year, made their presence at Linux Plumbers Conference 2008. Some of they presented their views about the evolution of kernel and userspace API evolutions. The slides are now available for download at LinuxTV website.

• Video Input Status Quo - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
• Extending V4L2 to support complex media streaming devices - Hans Verkuil
• libv4l2 - Hans de Goede
• The video4linux user-space: libv4l2, applications and a server - Brandon Philips
• Discussion/Round Table: Support for missing digital standards: DVB-H, ISDB, etc
  • Introdution - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  • New API proposals - Steven Toth

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