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 :)
