From: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
To: Bryan Nations <bnations@streamvenue.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to begin v4l2 application development??
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:49:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279316942.2446.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279316889.2446.6.camel@localhost>
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 17:48 -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:40 -0500, Bryan Nations wrote:
> > I am new to video for linux and would like to know what resources are
> > available to assist me in programming a simple webcam application with
> > c++ in a *nix environment. My main goal right now is to just view the
> > webcam in a small window. I have found lots of info on driver
> > development, but I am interested in the application side. Are there any
> > c++ examples or references that will help me get started?
>
> Read the V4L2 API documentation. Everything an app programmer can call
> is there.
Oops, forgot the link:
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/
> I susggest playing around with the v4l2-ctl utility with your device to
> get a feel for what many of the miscellaneous ioctl()'s support.
>
> You may want to look at svv.c here:
>
> http://moinejf.free.fr/
>
> as a simple test viewer application.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
>
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2010-07-16 19:40 How to begin v4l2 application development?? Bryan Nations
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