> what are the main advantages? > is it faster? No. > easier to program? Yes. It fixes a number of v4l(1) API flaws. It provides timestamps for the captured frames, has ioctl's to to list the available formats, ... > better documented? Yes. http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ > supports more devices? No. v4l2 provides backward compatibility to v4l1, so all v4l2 drivers can be used with the v4l1 API too. > does it support USB cameras? (is seems to support Creative Webcams) > does it support firewire cameras? Don't know. There are a number of v4l1 usb cam drivers in the standard kernel. Gerd -- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
