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Subject: Re: Survey on Video Capture API: BSD meteor(4) vs. Video for Linux
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On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:32:05 +0800
Intron is my alias on the Internet <intron@intron.ac> wrote:

> 2. Video for Linux 1/2 (See http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/)
>      These are the video capture APIs for Linux. There are two
> versions: V4L and V4L2. Supported hardware list:

My view on this is that V4L / V4L2 support should be just shims (aka
views aka interfaces) to the real video API, whatever that would be.

The only relal reason we need them is to more easily port programs.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway