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LinuxDevices.com published a tutorial, written by a specialist of Promwad, dedicated to questions of practical use of Video For Linux Two interface
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LinuxDevices.com published an article, written by a key-specialist of Promwad Innovation Company Vladimir Davydov, dedicated to questions of practical use of Video For Linux Two interface. By the way, since the beginning of March 2009 Promwad has become a gold sponsor of online resource LinuxDevices.com – the most popular independent embedded Linux resource. One of the main goals of that activity is to share hands-on experience on Embedded Linux application that was extracted due to the range of commercial projects successfully completed within the company and due to other internal researches and studies.
To this end, the key-specialist of Promwad Innovation Company Vladimir Davydov prepared a tutorial on work with Video For Linux Two interface. This article describes the Linux's V4L2 interface, along with the first steps toward developing a device driver that uses this interface. Video For Linux (V4L) is an API that provides unified access to various video capturing devices, such as TV tuners, USB web cameras, etc. This article may be useful for developers and software engineers. And it is based on source code of Linux 2.6.28 kernel.
From the first days of the publication, it arouses lively interest among site audience - a significant number of questions about how to solve those or other problems with the interface were received. As well as requests to write the article continuation were also received.
At the moment, the continuation of the article is preparing.
The full text of the article you may find here. To download the article please click here. |
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