[chbot] V4L2 tutorial

[Mark Atherton]

Thanks Charles.

At 02:26 p.m. 27/10/2011, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a PCI video capture card (with on board MPEG-2 video encoder)
> > plugged into an x86 loaded with Ubuntu Studio 11.04.
> >
> > I believe that with a little cunning, it is possible to configure one
> > of the dev/video devices to become a block file video source (so you
> > could open it, and copy the data to a file for example, or pipe it
> > through a filter etc).
>
>Won't this be a char driver and not a block driver? My Linux laptop says
>
>charles at charles-laptop:~$ ls -ial /dev/video0
>7241 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2011-10-27 08:23 /dev/video0
>charles at charles-laptop:~$
>
>Anyway  a quick Googling reveals:
>
>http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6357237.html?sid=00d8eb8061497f4e3f203fc9a90fcf6a
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> > Anyone know of any good tutorials on the subject ?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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