--- linuxtv.org/docs.php 2007/05/27 20:19:57 1.5 +++ linuxtv.org/docs.php 2007/08/21 14:51:23 1.6 @@ -22,21 +22,31 @@

Video4Linux

- You can find a PDF version of Video4Linux API (version 2) + You can find a PDF version of Video4Linux2 API at download area.

- A browsable online version of Video4Linux API (version 2) + A browsable online version of Video4Linux2 API is at here.

- There's a new V4L Drivers guide at - here + For developers, + LWN.net +is writing a +V4L2 series of articles +focusing at the development of a Linux V4L2 driver.

- PS.: This is a newer documment and might be suject to some errors. Contributions are wanted. Also notice that the main guide shall always be V4L API2. + There's a new V4L Drivers guide at + here. +
+ PS.: This is a newer document and might be suject to some errors. Contributions are wanted. Also notice that the main guide shall always be V4L API2.

- Video4Linux API (version 1) is obsolete. It will be removed from kernel by July/2006. -

+ Video4Linux API version 1 is obsolete. Driver and application +developers are requested to migrate their work to V4L2 API. +
+There's an effort in course to remove its support from +the drivers, keeping just a conversion module for keeping +compatibility for the old binary-only V4L1 applications.