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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <herd>media-tv</herd> |
| <maintainer> |
| <email>tetromino@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Alexandre Rostovtsev</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on |
| top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it |
| easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without |
| having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. |
| |
| libv4l consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2. |
| |
| libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixelformat |
| to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420. |
| |
| libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent |
| of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many |
| v4l2 drivers do not). |
| |
| libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the |
| application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
| |