Hello! Firstly have a look at xawtv's homepage: http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/ On 15:09 Fri 02 Jan , niamathullah sharief wrote: > Hello, > 1)what are all file formats are accepted by xawtv? xawtv just works with video devices (usually /dev/video*) > 2)what api is used by xawtv to capture the video? xawtv interacts with video devices using V4L1 (video4linux is deprecated nowadays, but there's a compatibility layer for it -- linux-2.6/drivers/media/video/v4l1-compat.c) or V4L2 (video4linux2). /dev/video* are character devices and V4L2 API works over ioctl system calls. > 3)how can we change the file formats when capturing the image? Format of which files do you mean? > 4)how it capture the image and converts that? > please can anyone tell me..... Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
