Hi Jeffrey,

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:27, Jeffrey Dever wrote:
> I don't understand the point of the VIDIOCCAPTURE ioctl.  I expected 
> that I would have to call it before doing a read().  But there is no 
> need, after VIDIOCSWIN the read works anyway.
> 
> According to the v4lapi:
> 
>     Merely setting the window does not enable capturing. Overlay
>     capturing is activatied by passing the VIDIOCCAPTURE ioctl a
>     value of 1, and disabled by passing it a value of 0.
> 
> So what is the function of this ioctl?

It enables video overlay, which is defined as "grabbing/capture to the
videocard's overlay framebuffer".

Ronald

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