On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:09:27 +0100, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > > See if you can make any use of this. I find it quite practical. > > By the way, I was wondering why luvcview is luvcview and not v4l2view, > with the linux-uvc driver alledgedly being so very V4L2 compliant. > Well, I guess I figured it out with my TV card: It's just about the > supported image formats. Fair enough.
luvcview started out as a test application for the UVC driver. Thanks to the v4l2 API it also works for other video sources :-) > Nevertheless, luvcview is indeed at least in detection mode (-L) very > practical for any V4L2 device. That's basically why I started enhancing > it a little. [*] > > My next attempt will be to make it initialize SDL (and X11) only if it > actually needs to display a window, not in detection mode (such as -L). A very interesting enhancement would be to fall back to YUV if MJPEG is not supported. It currently exits with an error code when the camera supports YUV only. Many users have been bitten by this. > Thanks, Michel, for the great tool, helping us all bring up our UVC > devices (and helps us proving that some other SW isn't really > compliant)! > > Regards, > Moritz > > [*] I am aware of v4lctl and v4l-info, as delivered e.g. by the > "reference suite" xawtv. But luvcview's info is very much more > concise. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
