Ben Bridgwater wrote: > > V4L2 also provides for non-blocking streaming captures and reads by supporting > select(), which will indicate the file descriptor has stuff to read either if a > streaming buffer is available to be dequeued, or (if streaming is off), if a > frame is available to be read with read(). This is something I really miss in > V4L. > > I'm not sure if read() is working in bttv (it's not in the version I have - I > use mmap()), but I believe it is in bttv2. > > Ben OK, the read() thing is a bttv issue, not a v4l issue. v4l does include read() support, it is just broken in bttv due to some of that historical cruft I mentioned. -justin
