Phil Endecott wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to understand what the DirectFB video support can do, having > never done anything with video before. > > Obviously it can support playing video "layers" in graphics hardware. > But I'm unclear whether I can also use it with, for example, my V4L2 > USB webcam. Is it possible to open this device and copy frames of > video from it to the screen? I've had a quick go, and it gets as far > as the VIDIOC_S_FBUF ioctl. Looking at what that does, it doesn't seem > something that it should need to do to just read frames from the > camera. So I suspect that I'm expecting more from this than I should be.
Using "df_layer /dev/video0" /should/ show your USB camera frames. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list directfb-users@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
