“I bought an Iomega Buz card a few months back. For those of you
who don’t know what this is, it’s a PCI card with an AdvanSys Ultra
SCSI controller and some MJPEG video compression hardware built
onto it. Before last week, I had only used the Buz in Windows with
Adobe Premiere 5.1. After a few months of rebooting just to
edit video, I decided that I would at least browse around and look
for a few Linux solutions which could make use of my video
hardware.“
“I was very pleased with what I found. For instance, did you
know that the Video 4 Linux (V4L) API is in its second stage —
V4L2? I would glance at V4L every time I would compile a kernel,
but I never paid much attention to it. It looks like the V4L API
matured quite a bit, and then a new API was started (V4L2), which
could replace the previous API and take care of some extendibility
issues.”