Re: V4L without X11

[Dan Newcombe <Newcombe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> Video4linux does not need X11 at all. If you are using the framebuffer video
> drivers there are apps like "fbtv" which place the TV picture in the top right
> of the console.

And for those of us who don't agree that computers are useless without
output, apps can access v4l, grab the data, shove it off to a hard drive
without ever displaying it for later consumption.  I was just setting up
something to grab frames from a quickcam and store them on the web server.
While it uses v4l, nothing ever comes up on the screen.

> Obviously this does not work in vga text mode

I'm sure someone with a lot more time than sanity has ported it to aalib
:)