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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
