On Die, 2002-03-05 at 07:18, Chris Nuernberger wrote: 
> When you set up a capture device, it basically gives you memory that it owns, 
> and you read your frames from here.  From there, as it stands right now you 
> have to copy that buffer into an xvideo shared buffer. 
> 
> Would it be possible to set the shared buffer's address to the memory that 
> the capture card gives you?  That way you wouldn't have to copy anything 
> anywhere.  Ideally, just get the buffer from the capture card and tell X to 
> display that buffer.  Is this possible?  What would it take to make it 
> possible?  

Not sure if this is what you want, but why not try: man v4l


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