Video4Linux Programming
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Video4Linux Programming

Alan Cox

<alan@redhat.com>

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Radio Devices

Registering Radio Devices
Opening And Closing The Radio
The Ioctl Interface
Module Wrapper

3. Video Capture Devices

Video Capture Device Types
Registering Video Capture Devices
Opening And Closing The Capture Device
Interrupt Handling
Reading The Video Image
Video Ioctl Handling
Other Functionality

4. Known Bugs And Assumptions

5. Public Functions Provided

video_register_device - register video4linux devices
video_unregister_device - unregister a video4linux device

List of Tables

2.1. Device Types
2.2. struct video_capability fields
2.3. struct video_tuner fields
2.4. struct video_tuner flags
2.5. struct video_tuner modes
2.6. struct video_audio fields
2.7. struct video_audio flags
2.8. struct video_audio modes
3.1. Capture Capabilities
3.2. struct video_channel fields
3.3. struct video_channel flags
3.4. struct video_channel types
3.5. struct video_channel norms
3.6. Framebuffer Encodings
3.7. struct video_window fields
3.8. video_clip fields

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