libv4l2

libv4l2-based capture driver More...

libv4l2-based capture driver

The libv4l2 driver captures images from various webcams. Based on v4l-utils (GNU GPL v2).

Compile-time dependencies

• libv4l2 (part of v4l-utils, shipped separately as media-libs/libv4l on Gentoo Linux)

Provides

• camera

Requires

• none

Configuration requests

• none

Configuration file options

• port (string)
  • Default: "/dev/video0"
  • Device to read video data from.
• sleep_nsec (integer)
  • Default: 10000000 (=10ms which gives max 100 fps)
  • timespec value for nanosleep()
• request_only (integer)
  • Default: 0
  • If set to 1, data will be sent only at PLAYER_CAMEARA_REQ_GET_IMAGE response.
• read_mode (integer)
  • Default: 0
  • Set to 1 if read should be used instead of grab (in most cases it isn't a good idea!)

Example

driver
(
  name "libv4l2"
  provides ["camera:0"]
)

Author

Paul Osmialowski