Ignoring the idiots who bash PA for the extra features, bug fixes in ALSA, convenience and obviously easier lives to all the programmers out there for the cost of 50ms of delay (oh no, the crime of waiting an extra 50ms for that Miley Cirus song!!), I see this as being fairly good.
One capture laptop, sending multiple streams to other servers which can then do stuff all over standardised APIs which will be supported by a great majority of the webcam software, plugging and switching cams on-the-go without so much fiddling on the active recording software.
I do see a slight problem with the fact that at higher resolutions some webcams capture at lower framerates, meaning that you can't capture at higher rates but lower resolutions for other apps.. Obviously processing video is a CPU intensive task and needs to be done in the best possible way, but as we have no idea on how it will be approached yet (I haven't seen anything on it) then you cannot possibly criticise it for anything yet apart from wanting to add a standard and ease use.
One capture laptop, sending multiple streams to other servers which can then do stuff all over standardised APIs which will be supported by a great majority of the webcam software, plugging and switching cams on-the-go without so much fiddling on the active recording software.
I do see a slight problem with the fact that at higher resolutions some webcams capture at lower framerates, meaning that you can't capture at higher rates but lower resolutions for other apps.. Obviously processing video is a CPU intensive task and needs to be done in the best possible way, but as we have no idea on how it will be approached yet (I haven't seen anything on it) then you cannot possibly criticise it for anything yet apart from wanting to add a standard and ease use.
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