Martin Peter Hanke wrote:

> Hi V4L-Specialists,
> 
> I have a question concerning the V4L2-API:
> 
> What is V4L2 exactly? As far as I understood the API reference it is a 
> complete API for reading data from a frame grabber. Is that right? Or is 
> it more like an API to develop drivers for frame grabber cards?
> I had a brief look at the example apps, but I got confused be the API 
> specs. What is it all about??
> Sorry, this might be stupid questions but I will be facing setting up a 
> surveillance app under Linux soon.
> I will use a frame grabber from Matrox with something around 10 - 16 
> cameras attached to it. Has someone experience with such hardware specs? 
> It is not clear which one will be used, yet. I read in the specs that 
> V4L2 is not tested with multi-threaded apps. Is that right?
> I mainly subscribed because this seems to be the only fully functional 
> API under Linux.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Martin Peter Hanke
> 
> 
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camstream will work great with that many cameras. There are others but I 
am still testing them and this one seems to work straight from jump street.

altoine



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