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 17:48:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279316889.2446.6.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C40B598.20705@streamvenue.com>
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.
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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2010-07-16 21:49 ` Andy Walls
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