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GPL'd Driver and Linux Support For New H.264 Capture Card

Posted by timothy on from the to-those-who-wait dept.

azop writes "Almost a year ago Slashdot covered the story of a MPEG-4 multiple input capture card with a GPL Video4Linux licensed driver. Earlier this year, Ben Collins added H.264 support into the solo6x10 Video4Linux2 GPL driver. The H.264 PCIe cards are finally released and shipping to customers. The new cards support faster frame rates and sport a PCIe interface. The driver is available for forkin' on Github."

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  1. Re:patents by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    My understanding, from TFPR, is that the card does h.246 encoding onboard(and the manufacturer of the card has paid their protection money to the MPEG LA) so the driver has no h.246 related duties, it just configures the card and collects the encoded output.

    Obviously, since the output is h.246, it'll need to be decoded for use, which does raise the patent issue; but not at the driver level.