[chbot] V4L2 tutorial

[Robin Gilks]

> 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).
>
> Anyone know of any good tutorials on the subject ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mark
>

For lots of code examples driving various v4l cards, take a look at the
MythTV project at www.mythtv.org


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Robin Gilks