On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:48:26AM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > BTW, what is the deal with motion and 2.6 kernels ? I am under the > > understanding that it requires the videoloop or whatever module, > > which is not only abandoned upstream, but also not yet ported to 2.6 > > kernels. > > I have been using motion and 2.6 without the v4l loopback device. I
Ok. > don't know much about it, but I think it was initially developed for > debugging motion in real-time or something like that. I have been helping someone, who has a customer who is using linux with a set of surveillance cameras. I think they use the vloopback device to have more than one app access the video device, namely motion and then vlc for video streaming server. Friendly, Sven Luther
