[Lazarus] V4L1 and V4L2 all in one unit

[Sven Barth]

I just thought that you should know this:

V4L1 support was removed from the 2.6.38 kernel, so devices that weren't 
switched to V4L2 till then won't work anymore (I don't know a list of 
those though...)

Regards,
Sven

On 02.05.2011 21:22, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after some more research into the entire V4L topic and after looking
> into the 5dpo package which contains an almost complete V4L2
> implementation (but unfortunately no code for V4l1 and I need both
> versions) I have made a little unit that solves my problem in a very
> simple way:
>
> * It is using V4l1 API only
> * It is using the libv4l1.so wrapper library for V4L2 compatibility
> * libv4l1 will also transparently decode all known image formats and
> encodings of the V2 cameras (V2 does not allow decoding inside the
> driver anymore) into uncompressed BGR24 or YUV420p on the fly.
>
> I have made a little camera application with it (similar to xawtv) and
> it was the first day in my life where I could see how all my cameras
> (V1 and V2) could work with the *same* application (some worked only
> with xawtv, one worked only with mplayer, one did never work before at
> all).
>
> This unit will be part of a small application that I will soon release
> under GPL. The Unit is licensed under modified LGPL.
>
> Attached is the v4l1 unit. Enjoy!
>
> Bernd
>
>
>
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