On 17:49 Fri 02 Jan , niamathullah sharief wrote: > > ok...can you tell me what is "video4linux2" is?is it a driver to capture the image?or something else? video4linux2 is Linux kernel subsystem, it registers video device class and provides an abstract API to the applications, so that a usermode programmer shouldn't care what types of video devices are installed on the system. And it also simplifies writing drivers for video devices: all the stuff regarding interactions between kernel and applications is already done in V4L2. Thus, V4L2 is a layer between hardware drivers and kernel API (syscalls -- mostly ioctl, files in /sys, ...) Link grabbed from linux-2.6/Documentation/video4linux/API.html: http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/video4linux/API/V4L2_API Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
