Hi,

Some documentation updates to bring the documentation up2date with the latest changes.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl

Regards,

Hans

Some documentation updates to bring the documentation up2date with the latest changes.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl

diff -r 5a184775625e v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/INSTALL --- a/v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/INSTALL Fri Jul 04 13:09:05 2008 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -To compile simply type "make" after that you can find the compiled libraries -and wrappers under the lib dir, public headers are under the include dir. - -Sorry no make install target for now. diff -r 5a184775625e v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/README --- a/v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/README Fri Jul 04 13:09:05 2008 +0200 +++ b/v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/README Fri Jul 04 13:18:59 2008 +0200 @@ -62,10 +62,18 @@ applications is called v4l1compat.so. The preloadable libv4l1 wrapper which adds v4l2 device compatibility to v4l1 applications is called v4l2convert.so

-Example usage: -$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib -$ export LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/lib/v4l1compat.so +Example usage (after install in default location): +$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/v4l1compat.so $ camorama + + +Installation Instructions +------------------------- + +Simple type the following commands from the libv4l-x.y.z directory +(adjusting DESTDIR as desired): +make +make install DESTDIR=/usr/local

FAQ diff -r 5a184775625e v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/TODO --- a/v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/TODO Fri Jul 04 13:09:05 2008 +0200 +++ b/v4l2-apps/lib/libv4l/TODO Fri Jul 04 13:18:59 2008 +0200 @@ -1,11 +1,3 @@ --protect open() against being called from different threads simultaniously, - we are then thread safe except for the jpeg decompression under the following - assumption: - * We assume all device setup (for a single device) is done from a single - thread - * We assume that at the time an videodev fd gets closed all other threads - which may have been using it have stopped using it. - -add support for setting / getting the number of read buffers

-add code to v4l2_read to not return frames more then say 5 seconds old @@ -15,12 +7,6 @@ impossible for overlays) can be done, so that it will no longer be necessary to implement CGMBUF in the kernel for each driver.

--add (configurable) support for alsa faking enum_fmt to libv4l2 ? - -check v4l2_field during conversion

--add make install target - -add conversion from bgr24 to yuv420 - --add v4l2_dup, make re-entrant safe (for gstreamer v4l2 support)