video(1) supports reading frames from a webcam via mmap(). To inform the V4L2 device about the number of desired buffers containing the frames to be memory-mapped, a VIDIOC_REQBUFS ioctl call is used.
At the moment the v4l2_requestbuffers struct used for the VIDIOC_REQBUFS ioctl is only partially initialized which leads to an invalid mmap for my webcam: video: mmap: Invalid argument With the following diff applied my camera works (only on EHCI ports with USB 3.0 disabled in BIOS but that is a different story). OK? Index: video.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/xenocara/app/video/video.c,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -p -r1.29 video.c --- video.c 6 Nov 2019 05:46:51 -0000 1.29 +++ video.c 26 May 2020 09:14:39 -0000 @@ -1354,6 +1354,8 @@ mmap_init(struct video *vid) /* request buffers */ rb.count = MMAP_NUM_BUFS; + rb.type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE; + rb.memory = V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP; r = ioctl(vid->dev.fd, VIDIOC_REQBUFS, &rb); if (r == -1) { warn("ioctl VIDIOC_REQBUFS");