The video4linux subsystem of the kernel is a very large API with many ioctls, settings, options and capabilities. This poses a problem both for the kernel developer and for the application developer. Since early this year major improvements have been made to both the...
The Linux graphics stack is constantly evolving to add support for new hardware. This evolution and new software specifications have forced the X graphical server to be split into several components including a now rotates in the Linux kernel, the Direct Rendering...
The DRM and KMS APIs have won in the Linux graphics ecosystem. Long gone are the days when KMS meant only a handful of desktop graphics drivers. As a side effect, new problems have been uncovered, and API extensions are being designed to address advanced use cases....
In order to correctly reproduce the colors encoded in a video (or a still image for that matter) you need to know the colorspace information associated with the video. But what exactly is a colorspace and what is the nformation that describes how color is encoded?...
